Definition of chapter

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Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.

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Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.
Capitular :: Capitular (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Hexahemeron :: Hexahemeron (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis..
Capital :: Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..
Caption :: Caption (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page..
Respond :: Respond (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim..
Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
Verse :: Verse (n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
Capitulate :: Capitulate (n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree..
Canonry :: Canonry (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..
Fac :: Fac (n.) A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
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