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• 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...
• The story that unfolds through 70 chapters featuring intense tactical battles is full of plot twists and turns. - 2003 December 5, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, Strategy with a Story, page 33:

1. 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.

   • 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...
   • At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics, - 1963, Charles Duggan, Twelfth-century Decretal Collections and Their Importance in English History, page 127:
   • 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». - 1983, Revue théologique de Louvain - Volume 14, page 127:

1. 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.

2. A community of canons or canonesses.

3. A bishop's council.

1. An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.

2. An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.

   • 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 - 1862, The Freemasons'...

• 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 determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again. - 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter 26, in The Lair of the White Worm:
• 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. -...

• In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? - c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...

Synonyms: capitule

• 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...
• "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." - 2006, Thomas R. Schombert, Diaries of a Soldier:...