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• Chapter — • Designates certain corporate ecclesiastical bodies, said to be derived from the chapter of the rule book, which it was the custom to read in the assemblies of monks Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Chapter     Chapter …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Chapter — Chap ter, n. [OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See {Chief}, and cf, {Chapiter}.] 1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• chapter — chap‧ter [ˈtʆæptə ǁ ər] noun [countable] the local members of a professional organization or labor union: • the Illinois chapter of the AFL CIO * * * chapter UK US /ˈtʃæptər/ noun [C] ► a local group of members who belong to a larger organization …   Financial and business terms

• chapter — ► NOUN 1) a main division of a book. 2) a particular period in history or in a person s life. 3) the governing body of a cathedral or other religious community. 4) chiefly N. Amer. a local branch of a society. ● chapter and verse Cf. ↑chapter and …   English terms dictionary

• chapter — [chap′tər] n. [ME & OFr chapitre, chapitle < L capitulum, head, capital (in LL, division of a writing; in ML, church division), dim. of caput, HEAD] 1. any of the main divisions of a book or other writing 2. a thing like a chapter; part;… …   English World dictionary

• chapter — (n.) c.1200, main division of a book, from O.Fr. chapitre (12c.) chapter (of a book), article (of a treaty), chapter (of a cathedral), alteration of chapitle, from L.L. capitulum, dim. of caput (gen. capitis) head (see HEAD (Cf. head)). Sense of… …   Etymology dictionary

• Chapter — Chap ter, v. t. 1. To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller. [1913 Webster] 2. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [Obs.] Dryden. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• chapter — I (branch) noun affiliate, associate, branch member, branch office, bureau, component, department, division, local, local office, lodge, member, office, organ, section, subdivision, subsidiary II (division) noun article, caput, clause, column,… …   Law dictionary

• chapter — the Bankruptcy Code is organized into Chapters. Except for Chapter 12, the Chapters of the present code are all odd numbered and are enumerated with Arabic numerals. (Before the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, the Chapters were numbered with Roman …   Glossary of Bankruptcy

• chapter — [n] section of book or group of items affiliate, branch, clause, division, episode, member, offshoot, part, period, phase, stage, topic, unit, wing; concepts 270,382,832 …   New thesaurus