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A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

An intervening or inserted chapter.

An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.

presentation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. You and love are still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton.

ing prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords. [Eng.]

ining or conveying an occult meaning; mystic. The Heptarchus is a cabalistic of the first chapter of Genesis. Hallam.

A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. Regular canoness, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

ap proverbs. Shak. Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. Dryden.

A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. Sir W. Scott.

An act passed in a chapter.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.] There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench.…

The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [U. S.]

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.