1. (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

2. (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.

3. (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.

4. (n.) A bishop's council.

5. (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.

6. (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.

7. (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

8. (n.) A chapter house.

9. (n.) A decretal epistle.

10. (n.) A location or compartment.

11. (v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.

12. (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.

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