CHAPTER

noun a chapter house.

2. chapter ·noun a bishop's council.

3. chapter ·noun a decretal epistle.

4. chapter ·noun a location or compartment.

5. chapter ·noun a community of canons or canonesses.

6. chapter ·vt to divide into chapters, as a book.

7. chapter ·noun a business meeting of any religious community.

8. chapter ·noun a meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

9. chapter ·noun a division of a book or treatise; as, genesis has fifty chapters.

10. chapter ·noun an organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the freemasons.

11. chapter ·vt to correct; to bring to book, ·i.e., to demand chapter and verse.

12. 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.