LekhoriLekhoriObsolete form of chapter.
Upon Friday the xxth daye of September in the yere before wrytten ther was a chapiter holden by Mr Deane and certen of the prebendaryes , at the whiche chapiter they dyd admitt ij peticanons and a clarke, that is to saye Syr John Thomas in to the rome of Sir Ellys Pecoke, Syr Wyllyam Laynborrow in the rome of Syr Ludgolde, and John Marshall in to Fox rome.
The capital or uppermost part of a column, upon which the roof and its decorations are supported.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
A written summary of matters to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; articles.
and when the time commeth , the shyrecue shall certifie the chapiters before the Justices in Eire, how many writs he hath and what & c.
From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum, diminutive of caput (“head”). Doublet of chapter and capitulum.
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