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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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House, Chapter
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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A building attached to a monastery or cathedral in which the meetings of the chapter are held. In monasteries the chapter house was used daily after Prime for the reading of the "Martyrology" and "Necrology," the correction of faults, the assignment of daily tasks, the exhortation of the superior, and again for the evening collation. Secular canons used it for the formal transaction of public business of common interest to the body corporate. Its shape is varied. In England it was the object of careful designing, culminating in the polygonal chapter house of which Lincoln Cathedral (1240-1260) has perhaps the earliest example.
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Entry for 'House, Chapter'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/h/house-chapter.html. 1910.
Entry for 'House, Chapter'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/h/house-chapter.html. 1910.
