An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
A community of canons or canonesses.
A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
A chapter house
A bishop's council.
One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
To put into a chapter.
To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
To take to task.
To divide into chapters.
A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
A country bumpkin.
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
Narrow; illiberal.
Constituting a province.
Of or pertaining to a province.
Limited in outlook; narrow.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.