Definition of chapter

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Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.

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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..
Quotation :: Quotation (n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc..
Headnote :: Headnote (n.) A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court..
Title :: Title (n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
Respond :: Respond (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
Benedicite :: Benedicite (n.) A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
Slype :: Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
Interchapter :: Interchapter (n.) An intervening or inserted chapter.
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council..
Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Capital :: Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..
Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..
Section :: Section (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division..
Verse :: Verse (n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
Capitular :: Capitular (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
Millennium :: Millennium (n.) A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints..
Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..
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