Definition of chapter

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Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse..

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Cellarer :: Cellarer (n.) A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
Capitular :: Capitular (n.) An act passed in 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..
Hebdomadary :: Hebdomadary (n.) A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors..
Eleventh :: Eleventh (a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..
Verse :: Verse (n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
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..
Capitular :: Capitular (n.) A member of a chapter.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.
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.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.
Capitulary :: Capitulary (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
Append :: Append (v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter..
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..
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..
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