A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
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.
A community of canons or canonesses.
A bishop's council.
A business meeting of any religious community.
An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson.
A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
A chapter house. [R.] Burrill.
A decretal epistle. Ayliffe.
A location or compartment. In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom Shak. Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. -- Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. -- The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat.
To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller.
To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [Obs.] Dryden.
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