Chapter

1. v. t. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
2. n. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
3. 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.
4. n. A community of canons or canonesses.
5. n. A bishop’s council.
6. n. A business meeting of any religious community.
7. n. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
8. n. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
9. n. A chapter house.
10. n. A decretal epistle.
11. 1v. t. 1 To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
12. 1n. 1 A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.