See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

CHAPTER (a shortened See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of chapiter, a word still used in See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture for a See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, See also:

• LAT

Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head)  , a See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division or See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of a See also:

• BOOK

book, and so applied to acts of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, as forming " chapters " or divisions of the legislation of a session of parliament . The name " See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter " is given to the permanent See also:

• BODY

body of the canons of a See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral or collegiate See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, presided over, in the See also:

• ENGLISH

English Church, by the clean, and in the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman communion by the See also:

• PROVOST (through O. Fr. prevost, mod. prevot, Lat. praepositus, set over, from praeponere, to place in front)

provost or the See also:

• DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)
• DEAN, FOREST OF

dean, and also to the body of the members of a religious See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order . This may be a " conventual " chapter of the monks of a particular monastery, " provincial " of the members of the order in a See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, or " See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general " of the whole order . This ecclesiastical use of the word arose from the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom of See also:

• READING

reading a chapter of Scripture, or a See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head (capitulum) of the See also:

• REGULA

regula, to the assembled canons or monks . The transference from the reading to the See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly itself, and to the members constituting it, was easy, through such phrases as convenire ad capitulum . The See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title " chapter " is similarly used of the assembled body of knights of a military or other order . (See also See also:

• CANON

CANON; CATHEDRAL; DEAN) . CHAPTER-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

HOUSE (See also:

• LAT

Lat. capitolium, Ital. capitolo, Fr. chapitre, Ger . Kapitelhaus), the chamber in which the chapter or heads of the monastic bodies (see See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

ABBEY and CATHEDRAL) assembled to transact business . They are of various forms; some are oblong apartments, as See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury, See also:

• EXETER
• EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

Exeter, See also:

• CHESTER
• CHESTER, EARLS OF

Chester, See also:

• GLOUCESTER
• GLOUCESTER (abbreviated as pronounced Glo'ster)
• GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF (1243-1295)
• GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, EARL OF (1222-1262)
• GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF (d. 1147)
• GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE

Gloucester, &c.; some octagonal, as See also:

• SALISBURY
• SALISBURY, EARLS OF
• SALISBURY, ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNECECIL, 3RD MARQUESS OF (1830-1903)
• SALISBURY, ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1565-1612)
• SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
• SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d. 1226)

Salisbury, See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster, See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

Wells, See also:

• LINCOLN
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
• LINCOLN, EARLS OF

Lincoln, See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, &c . That at Lincoln has ten sides, and that at See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

Worcester is circular; most are vaulted internally and polygonal externally, and some, as Salisbury, Wells, Lincoln, Worcester, &c., dependon a single slight vaulting See also:

• SHAFT
• SHAFT (O. Eng., sceaft, from scafan, to shave; the word is common to Teutonic languages)

shaft for the support of the massive vaulting . They are often provided with a See also:

• VESTIBULE (from Lat. vestibulum)

vestibule, as at Westminster, Lincoln, Salisbury and are almost exclusively English .