the Third Week after Easter
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or (1):
(n.) A chapter house.
(2):
(n.) A location or compartment.
(3):
(n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
(4):
(n.) A bishop's council.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
(7):
(n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
(8):
(v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.
(9):
(n.) A decretal epistle.
(10):
(n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
(11):
(n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
(12):
(n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Chapter'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/chapter.html. 1828.
