Chapter

·noun A chapter house.

II. Chapter ·noun A bishop's council.

III. Chapter ·noun A decretal epistle.

IV. Chapter ·noun A location or compartment.

V. Chapter ·noun A community of canons or canonesses.

VI. Chapter ·vt To divide into chapters, as a book.

VII. Chapter ·noun A business meeting of any religious community.

VIII. Chapter ·noun A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

IX. Chapter ·noun A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

X. Chapter ·noun An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.

XI. Chapter ·vt To Correct; to bring to book, ·i.e., to demand chapter and verse.

XII. Chapter ·noun An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.