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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