meaning of chapter

1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
2.
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.
3.
A community of canons or canonesses.
4.
A bishops council.
5.
A business meeting of any religious community.
6.
An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
7.
A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
8.
A chapter house.
9.
A decretal epistle.
10.
A location or compartment.
11.
To divide into chapters, as a book.
12.
To correct; to bring to book, i. e. , to demand chapter and verse.
13.
a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; "he read a chapter every night before falling ">asleep"


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