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Chapiter(e, Chapitour(e, n.¹ Also: chapyter(e, chapeter, chapitre, chapitur. [ME. chapyter(e, chapitere (also chapitour, -ure, etc.), chapitre (a 1225), OF. chapitre, earlier chapitle, L. capitulum. See also Chaptour, n.¹] A chapter of a book.(a) a1400 Leg. S. i. 175.
Of Clement in the story He sall find it … In-to the tende chapitere Ib. xxxi. 647.
As the wyse Ecclesyastes sais … into the thred chapytere Ib. xxxii. 32.
In the lewint distinccion Of the decre … In the sext chapitere 1420 Liber Calchou 449.
The secund chapeter tellis how this sekenas commys c1420 Wynt. ii. xvi. (heading).
Now tellis the next chapitere Qwhat the Amazones were Ib. viii. 674.
The sevyn and twentyd chapytere [of Numbers] All thus tellis the manere 1456 Hay I. 1/20; etc.
In the first chapiter he speris quhat thing is bataill c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 2/10.
The xj chapiter tretis of the natur … of mercye c1520-c1535 Nisbet III. 256.
Esaie the li chapiter(b) 1456 Hay II. 66/4.
The auchtand chapitre contenis, how the said ordre suld be haldyn at honour 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 104.
In the fiftene chapitre of the Actis of the Apostlis Ib. 107; etc.
The thrid chapitre(c) c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 1/1.
In the first chapitur ar tuichit the causis of the compilacioun of this werke Ib. 11.
The thrid chapitour spekis of the sacrament 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xcviii.
Schawand brevely in quhat buke, chapitoure and leif … thair livis … sal be esaly foundin