chapter
Speech parts
1. chapter - Noun
2. chapter - Verb
Meaning
A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
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.
A business meeting of any religious community.
An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
A chapter house.
A decretal epistle.
A location or compartment.
To divide into chapters, as a book.
To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
Joseph Alleine, The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners (1804), Chapter 3.
The first chapter of fools is to think themselves wise.
Michel de Montaigne, Of Liars, Book I, Chapter IX.