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| 1. subst. (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided. | |
| Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter. | |
| 2. subst. A section of a social or religious body. | |
| 3. subst. An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area. | |
| 4. subst. An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually pre | |
| 5. subst. A community of canons or canonesses. | |
| 6. subst. A bishop's council. | |
| 7. subst. An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons. | |
| 8. subst. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders. | |
| 9. subst. A chapter house. | |
| 10. subst. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue. | |
| 11. subst. A decretal epistle. | |
| 12. subst. (obsolete) A location or compartment. | |
| 13. v. To divide into chapters. | |
| 14. v. To put into a chapter. | |
| 15. v. (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone. | |
