Chapter

1. A bishop's council.
2. A business meeting of any religious community.
3. A location or compartment.
4. A chapter house.
5. A community of canons or canonesses.
6. To divide into chapters, as a book.
7. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
8. 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.
9. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
10. A decretal epistle.
11. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
12. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.