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(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

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Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.

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A section of a social or religious body.

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A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

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A decretal epistle.

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A location or compartment.

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To divide into chapters.

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To put into a chapter.

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(with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.

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To take to task.

The story of its conquest is fully narrated in the first seven chapters of Joshua.

In its original form the text of Magna Carta was not divided into chapters, but in later times a division of this kind was adopted.

The popes were henceforth to be chosen by the cardinals, the bishops by the chapters subject to the popes approval.

He first introduced the division into chapters and paragraphs, and by means of carefully compiled indexes illustrated the lexical peculiarities of each author.

Now for a short time the document leaves the great questions at issue between the king and the barons, and two chapters are devoted to protecting the people generally against the exactions of the Jews.

Other provisions, the object of which had been to restrain John from demanding more money from various classes of his subjects, were also deleted, and the same fate befell such chapters as dealt with mere temporary matters.

The first book, of fourteen short chapters, is concerned with the general properties of the globe; the remaining six books treat in considerable detail of the countries of Europe and of the other continents.

It is divided into six "orders," according to subject, and each order is subdivided into chapters.

The earliest remains near the site go ' For a discussion of this question see Kathleen Schlesinger, The Instruments of the Orchestra, part ii., and especially chapters on the cithara in transition during the middle ages, and the question of the origin of the Utrecht Psalter, in which the evolution of the cithara is traced at some length.

Within two years the famous chapters had elicited what might almost be called a library of controversy.

The main points in the general conclusions of these chapters have been borne out by subsequent research.

That they have been affected by the growth of popular tradition is patent from the traces of duplicate narratives, from the difficulty caused, for example, by the story of Goliath, and from a closer study of the chapters.

Dublin's got so trendy now; there are always plenty of hotspot locations to set chapters in!

The collected literary works of Wagner in German fill ten volumes, and include political speeches, sketches for dramas that did not become operas, autobiographical chapters, aesthetic musical treatises and polemics of vitriolic violence.

Paul habitually expanded and deepened this, and, in this case, that paragraph is enormously enlarged, so that it may be regarded as including chapters i.-iii., and as carrying the main thought of the epistle.

First, in chapters i.-iii., under the mask of a conventional congratulatory paragraph, the writer declares at length the privileges which this great fact confers upon those who by faith receive the gift of God, and he is thus able to touch on the various aspects of his subject.

Then, in chapters iv.-vi., he turns, with a characteristic and impressive "therefore," to set forth the obligations which correspond to the privileges he has just expounded.

Dr William Bright's Chapters of Early English Church History (3rd ed., Clarendon Press, 1897) is indispensable.

In the four last chapters the author, returning to the history, gives a detailed account of the provision made for the Israelites in the wilderness and of the pains and terrors with which the Egyptians were plagued.

On the advice of Acacius, the energetic patriarch of Constantinople, Zeno issued the Henotikon edict (482), in which Nestorius and Eutyches were condemned, the twelve chapters of Cyril accepted, and the Chalcedon Definition ignored.

The Eastern bishops subscribed, these edicts, and even Pope Vigilius yielded, in spite of the protests of the Western bishops, and at the 5th General Council (Constantinople, 553) agreed to the condemnation of the "three chapters" 1 and the anathematizing of any who should defend them by an appeal to the Definitions of Chalcedon.

Simon's history, in its original form, is lost; but large sections of it have been preserved in Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum historiale, where nineteen chapters are expressly said to be ex libello fratris Simonis, or entitled frater Simon.

The writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia had become well known in the West, especially since the strife over the "three chapters" (544-553), and the opposition of Islam also partly determined the form of men's views on the doctrine of Christ's person.

See C. Hawley, Early Chapters of Cayuga History (Auburn, 1879).

As the chronicler rewrote the history of Israel and Judah from the basis of the Priests' Code, so our author re-edited from the Pharisaic standpoint of his time the book of Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus.

Chapters i.

I seems to refer to chapters xciii.

Clifford, The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885), chapters i.

We refer to Bhaskara Acarya, whose work the Siddhanta-ciromani (" Diadem of an Astronomical System "), written in 1150, contains two important chapters, the Lilavati (" the beautiful [science or art] ") and Viga-ganita (" root-extraction "), which are given up to arithmetic and algebra.

The earlier chapters, treating chiefly of the arithmetical foundations of the science, differ but little in their line of argument from the principles laid down by Pietro Aron, Zacconi, and other early writers of the Boeotian school; but in bk.

Even if, by a bold assumption, we grant the unity of authorship, it is plain upon the face of it that the chapters in question cannot have been composed at the same time or under the same circumstances; literary and artistic unity is wholly wanting.

The fortunes of Brown's system (called, from having been originally written in Latin, the Brunonian) form one of the strangest chapters in the history of medicine.

In collaboration with his pupil Andre Reville, he wrote the chapters on "L'Emancipation des villes, les communes et les bourgeoisies" and "Le Commerce et l'industrie au moyen age" for the Histoire generate of Lavisse and Rambaud.

But if the hymns in the two introductory chapters owe even their Greek form in any measure to him, he was a poet of no mean order.

The second form has the same 65 chapters, but contains interpolated provisions which show Christian influence.

The law is a compilation, the various chapters were composed at different periods, and we do not possess the original form of the compilation.

Even the most ancient text, that in 65 chapters, contains passages which a comparison with the later texts shows to be interpolations.

Geffcken, Lex Salica (Leipzig, 1898), the text in 65 chapters, with commentary paragraph by paragraph, and appendix of additamenta; and the edition undertaken by Mario Krammer for the Mon.

On analysis, the law of the Ripuarians, which contains 89 chapters, falls into three heterogeneous divisions.

In certain chapters it is possible to discern the questions of the missi and the answers of the inhabitants.

Chapters lx., lxv.

Chapters vi.

On these chapters may have followed Eth.

In its fullest form this apocryph consists of sixteen chapters, but i.

It is not improbable that these chapters are based on an earlier Jewish writing.

There are eighty-eight chapters.

The first eight chapters of the book of Zechariah exactly fit into this historical setting.

Thus throughout the first eight chapters the scene is Jerusalem in the early part of the reign of Darius.

The great concern of the time and the chief practical theme of these chapters is the building of the temple; but its restoration is only the earnest of greater things to follow, viz., the glorious restoration of David's kingdom.

The predictions of these chapters have no affinity either with the prophecy of Amos, Hosea and Isaiah, or with that of Jeremiah.