chapter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.
Inflected forms:
form: chapters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chapiter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapitre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapiture
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chaptre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapyter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapytre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chaptire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chaptering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chaptered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chaptered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chapiter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapitre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapiture
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chaptre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapyter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chapytre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chaptire
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
pos: noun
examples: Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
The story that unfolds through 70 chapters featuring intense tactical battles is full of plot twists and turns.
gloss: One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
pos: noun
examples: CHAPTER - One of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the subjects treated in the books.
At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics,
il conclut: « No pope, no collection but the masters who served the one and commented on the other ultimately determined the content of this decretal chapter».
But unlike a similar annotation, it has not been turned into a chapter title because the annotation “de quodam hermita” (Of a certain hermit) immediately preceded it. If a scribe had also turned Liberauit Dominus hermitam into a chapter title, he would have created a chapter that consisted of a single sentence, which even for a rather dull scribe would seem unacceptable. […] While scribe A wrote the body of the text of the De nugis curialium, scribe X contributed the rubricated chapter headings.
While rubrics do not appear in paper manuscripts, eight paper manuscripts contain chapter titles, which serve the same function as the medieval rubrics.
Characteristics: parchment; 92 fols.; 260 × 180 mm.; 32 lines; Italy; ca. 1430; two hands: humanistic rotunda with some Gothic features; marginal notes by first hand and names by a second hand; space left for initials; rubric inscriptions; superscript variants by first hand; chapters marked in margin; horizontal catchwords; quaternions.
From canon law, he cited Gratian's Decretum, Gregory's Decretales, the Sexto and Clementines Decretales, and the Extravagantes, and specifically referred to “the rules for understanding the Law” in a decretal chapter on Propterea.
gloss: Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
pos: noun
gloss: Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
pos: noun
gloss: Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
pos: noun
gloss: A section of a social body.
pos: noun
gloss: A section of a social body.
pos: noun
examples: If the By-Law which admits honorary members is silent upon their rights, they may perhaps be determined by a consideration of which of these classes was intended by the Chapter in admitting them
gloss: A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
pos: noun
gloss: A chapter house
pos: noun
gloss: A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
pos: noun
examples: 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I,
"You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?" ¶ She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. ¶ "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home."
[…]she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again.
A chapter of locomotive history was closed on Sunday, April 13, when the last Atlantic tender locomotive to remain in service on British Railways, No. 32424, Beachy Head, ended its working life of more than 46 years.
With the entry into service of the '777s', a new chapter opens in the long history of Merseyside's electric suburban railwsys.
gloss: A location or compartment.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
gloss: A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
pos: noun
gloss: To divide into chapters.
pos: verb
gloss: To put into a chapter.
pos: verb
gloss: To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
pos: verb
examples: If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
"He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army."
gloss: To take to task.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: ch.
chap.
chpt.
Related words: capital
capitalism
capitulate
capitulation
captain
chapiter
per capita
magerina
marginalia
overarching
rubric
Derived words: chapter and verse
chapter book
chapterful
chapter house
chapterlike
chapter of accidents
chapter out
chapterplay
chapterwise
dean and chapter
go Chapter 11
interchapter
microchapter
midchapter
multichapter
subchapter
to the end of the chapter
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kapitull
lang: Albanian
word: krye
lang: Amharic
word: ምዕራፍ
roman: məʿraf
lang: Arabic
word: فَصْل
roman: faṣl
lang: Arabic
word: بَاب
roman: bāb
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܩܹܦܵܠܹܐܘܿܢ
roman: qepaleʾon
lang: Armenian
word: գլուխ
roman: glux
lang: Asturian
word: capítulu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: fəsil
lang: Bashkir
word: бүлек
roman: bülek
lang: Basque
word: kapitulu
lang: Belarusian
word: глава́
roman: hlavá
lang: Belarusian
word: раздзе́л
roman: razdzjél
lang: Bengali
word: অধ্যায়
roman: oddhaẏ
lang: Breton
word: chabistr
lang: Breton
word: pennad
lang: Bulgarian
word: глава́
roman: glavá
lang: Burmese
word: အခန်း
roman: a.hkan:
lang: Burmese
word: ခန်း
roman: hkan:
lang: Catalan
word: capítol
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏯᏙᏢᎢ
roman: ayadotlvi
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏯᏙᎸᎢ
roman: ayadolvi
lang: Chichewa
word: mutu
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 章
roman: zoeng¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 章節 /章节
roman: zoeng¹ zit³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 章
roman: zhāng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 章節 /章节
roman: zhāngjié
lang: Coptic
word: ⲕⲉⲫⲁⲗⲁⲓⲟⲛ
roman: kephalaion
lang: Czech
word: kapitola
lang: Czech
word: hlava
lang: Danish
word: kapitel
lang: Dutch
word: hoofdstuk
lang: Dutch
word: kapittel
lang: Esperanto
word: ĉapitro
lang: Estonian
word: peatükk
lang: Ewe
word: ta
lang: Finnish
word: luku
lang: Finnish
word: pykälä
lang: French
word: chapitre
lang: Galician
word: capítulo
lang: Georgian
word: თავი
roman: tavi
lang: German
word: Kapitel
lang: German
word: Abschnitt
lang: Greek
word: κεφάλαιο
roman: kefálaio
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κεφάλαιον
roman: kephálaion
lang: Greenlandic
word: kapitali
lang: Gujarati
word: પ્રકરણ
roman: prakraṇ
lang: Hebrew
word: פֶּרֶק
roman: pérek
lang: Hindi
word: अध्याय
roman: adhyāy
lang: Hindi
word: बाब
roman: bāb
lang: Hindi
word: चैप्टर
roman: caipṭar
lang: Hindi
word: खंड
roman: khaṇḍ
lang: Hindi
word: खण्ड
roman: khaṇḍ
lang: Hungarian
word: fejezet
lang: Icelandic
word: kafli
lang: Ido
word: chapitro
lang: Indonesian
word: bab
lang: Indonesian
word: bagian
lang: Ingrian
word: glava
lang: Irish
word: caibidil
lang: Old Irish
word: caiptel
lang: Italian
word: capitolo
lang: Japanese
word: 章
roman: shō
lang: Japanese
word: 章節
roman: shōsetsu
lang: Kazakh
word: тарау
roman: tarau
lang: Khmer
word: កណ្ឌ
roman: kan
lang: Khmer
word: កថាភាគ
roman: kaʼthaa phiək
lang: Khmer
word: ចំពូក
roman: cɑmpuuk
lang: Korean
word: 장
roman: jang
lang: Korean
word: 장절
roman: jangjeol
lang: Kyrgyz
word: тароо
roman: taroo
lang: Kyrgyz
word: глава
roman: glava
lang: Lao
word: ບົດ
roman: bot
lang: Latin
word: caput
lang: Latin
word: capitulum
lang: Latvian
word: nodaļa
lang: Lithuanian
word: skyrius
lang: Macedonian
word: глава
roman: glava
lang: Macedonian
word: поглавје
roman: poglavje
lang: Malay
word: bab
lang: Malayalam
word: അദ്ധ്യായം
roman: addhyāyaṁ
lang: Middle English
word: chapitre
lang: Mongolian
word: бүлэг
roman: büleg
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kapittel
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kapittel
lang: Old English
word: capitul
lang: Old English
word: hēafodweard
lang: Iranian Persian
word: فَصْل
roman: fasl
lang: Iranian Persian
word: فَرْگَرْد
roman: fargard
lang: Iranian Persian
word: باب
roman: bâb
lang: Polish
word: rozdział
lang: Portuguese
word: capítulo
lang: Romanian
word: capitol
lang: Russian
word: глава́
roman: glavá
lang: Russian
word: разде́л
roman: razdél
lang: Sanskrit
word: अध्याय
roman: adhyāya
lang: Sanskrit
word: काण्ड
roman: kāṇḍa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: caibideil
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: по̀гла̄вље
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гла́ва
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pòglāvlje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gláva
lang: Slovak
word: kapitola
lang: Slovak
word: hlava
lang: Slovak
word: odsek
lang: Slovene
word: poglavje
lang: Spanish
word: capítulo
lang: Swahili
word: sura
lang: Swedish
word: kapitel
lang: Tagalog
word: kabanata
lang: Tajik
word: боб
roman: bob
lang: Tajik
word: фасл
roman: fasl
lang: Telugu
word: ప్రకరణము
roman: prakaraṇamu
lang: Thai
word: บท
roman: bòt
lang: Thai
word: ตอน
roman: dtɔɔn
lang: Tocharian B
word: sargga
lang: Turkish
word: bölüm
lang: Turkmen
word: bap
lang: Ukrainian
word: глава́
roman: hlavá
lang: Ukrainian
word: ро́зділ
roman: rózdil
lang: Urdu
word: باب
roman: bāb
lang: Urdu
word: فَصْل
roman: fasl
lang: Urdu
word: کھَنْڈ
roman: khanḍ
lang: Uyghur
word: باب
roman: bab
lang: Uzbek
word: bob
lang: Uzbek
word: fasl
lang: Vietnamese
word: chương
lang: Walloon
word: tchaptrê
lang: Walloon
word: tchapite
lang: Welsh
word: pennod
lang: Yiddish
word: קאַפּיטל
roman: kapitl
lang: Dutch
word: kapittel
lang: French
word: chapitre
lang: German
word: Kapitel
lang: Hungarian
word: káptalan
lang: Latin
word: capitulum
lang: Middle English
word: chapitre
lang: Polish
word: kapituła
lang: Russian
word: капитул
roman: kapitul
lang: Spanish
word: capítulo