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Definition of Chapiter
1. Noun. The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.
Definition of Chapiter
1. n. A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.
Definition of Chapiter
1. Noun. (architecture) The 'capital' or uppermost part of a column, upon which the roof and its decorations are supported. ¹
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Definition of Chapiter
1. the capital of a column [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapiter
Literary usage of Chapiter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1794)
"... pur ceo que le And a deane may have a writ of ¡uy et en fon chapiter. ...
in him and in his chapiter. pait aver brief e de droit, pur ceo que him. ..."
2. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"... [Dr. Goodman] with the assent of the chapiter : as appeareth by divers decrees,
recorded in the chapiter book. DAILY prayer in king Henry the Sevenths ..."
3. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"And he made two chapiter» — the height of tAe one chapiter (was) five — seven
far the one chapiter, and seven fur cubits, and the height of the outer ..."
4. ... An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the by Albert Gallatin Mackey, Edward L. Hawkins, William James Hughan (1912)
"The chapiter or pommel was five cubits, or seven and a half feet more; but as
half a cubit, or nine inches, was common to both pillar and chapiter, ..."
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