chapiter

British  

/ ˈtʃæpɪtə /

noun

1. architect another name for capital 2

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Etymology

Origin of chapiter

C15: from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitellum _capital ²

Example Sentences

I start a chapiter and they say, ‘No, chapter’ and I say chapiter.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2016

In the last chapiter he addeth: Mando a vostra Signoria una pelle di vacca, certe turchine e duoi pendenti d'orecchie delle medesime, e quindici pettini de gl'Indiani, e alcune tauolette guarnite di queste turchine, &c.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

The base, ornamented with lines or net-work, twelve cubits; the column eighteen cubits, and the chapiter five cubits, making the height thirty-five cubits; while the column or pillar, cast by itself, was only eighteen.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

In the chapiter of Hispaniola it thus followeth: Nowe after sondry other forces, violences, and tormentes which they wroughte againste them, the Indians perceaved that those were no men descended from heaven.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

He used button instead of tache, capital for chapiter, and made Hebrew proper names in the New Testament conform to the usage of the Old.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.