Definition of chapter
- n. - A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty
chapters.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A community of canons or canonesses.
- n. - A bishop's council.
- n. - A business meeting of any religious community.
- n. - An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of
the Freemasons.
- n. - A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- n. - A chapter house.
- n. - A decretal epistle.
- n. - A location or compartment.
- v. t. - To divide into chapters, as a book.
- v. t. - To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter
and verse.