chapter
Meanings
noun
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A bishop's council.
- A section of a social body.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
- A chapter house
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
verb
- To divide into chapters.
- To put into a chapter.
- To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- To take to task.
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From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.
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