A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
A community of canons or canonesses.
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 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 solemn assembly or council.
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.