Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chapiter

Chapiter , noun

[Old French chapitel, French chapiteau, from Latin capitellum, dim. of caput head. Compare Capital, Chapter.]

1.
(Architecture) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital. — Ex. xxxvi. 38
2.
(Old Eng. Law) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles. — Jacob