Talk:chapter

RFV discussion: October–December 2021

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chapter

Rfv-sense: A decretal epistle - OED has it as a mention MooreDoor (talk) 22:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Isn’t that the sense seen in “established by Royal Chapter”^[1] and “incorporated by Royal Chapter”^[2]?  --Lambiam 09:38, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 04:28, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

The terms is used to refer to some division of collections of letters or parts of such letters deemed decretal. There are titles in at least some of these collections and chapters within them. I think the chapters are all or part of usually an individual letter and the titles group such items by some principle contemplated by the collector. This seems a highly specialized use, limited to scholars or ecclesiastical history, ancient law, etc. I don't think we can readily cite this unambiguously without the assistance of scholars in these fields. I have included 2 cites at Citations:chapter. DCDuring (talk) 20:12, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

A Church Dictionary (Hook, 1896) has two clusters of definitions for chapter, the more relevant one being: "one of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the subjects treated in the books."

This suggests to me that we might want to create a definition of which of the current "authorship" definition, slightly amended, would be a subsense and the following another subsense "a division of a document into sections by scholars for reference purposes." DCDuring (talk) 20:33, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

I have added a third cite for "decretal chapter". This is now cited. @DCDuring, since you seem to know what sort of definition you think should be added for these, would you do the honors? Kiwima (talk) 19:44, 3 December 2021 (UTC)