"chapter and verse" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the practice, especially among Christian Protestants, of using quotations from the Bible to support positions taken in sermons or discussions, citing the specific chapter and verse of the books of the Bible.",
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "chapter and verse (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "64 29 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 25 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 12 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science:",
          "text": "In the other dispute (“Did Jesus anywhere claim to be God?”) the same kind of men—trained and learned clergymen—backed up their arguments with chapter and verse.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The chapter number and verse number (within a particular book) that locate a quotation from the Bible."
      ],
      "id": "en-chapter_and_verse-en-noun-iK5hdKKj",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) The chapter number and verse number (within a particular book) that locate a quotation from the Bible."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Maud Churton Braby, “Polygamy at the polite dinner-table”, in Modern Marriage and How to Bear It:",
          "text": "‘I deny the first statement,’ said the Good Stockbroker heatedly. He was always heated where questions of morality were concerned, and was proceeding to give chapter and verse for what promised to become a somewhat dull discussion when the Bluestocking firmly interposed in her small staccato pipe:[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Specific references from an authoritative book or document, cited to support a statement or position."
      ],
      "id": "en-chapter_and_verse-en-noun-M7rSpnn-",
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The main suspect refused to answer any questions, but the police got chapter and verse from his accomplice.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:",
          "text": "She abounded in news of the situation at home, proved to him how perfectly she was arranging for his absence, told him who would take up this and who take up that exactly where he had left it, gave him in fact chapter and verse for the moral that nothing would suffer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very full and detailed information."
      ],
      "id": "en-chapter_and_verse-en-noun-DpjW2DCY",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Very full and detailed information."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chapter and verse"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the practice, especially among Christian Protestants, of using quotations from the Bible to support positions taken in sermons or discussions, citing the specific chapter and verse of the books of the Bible.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "chapter and verse (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science:",
          "text": "In the other dispute (“Did Jesus anywhere claim to be God?”) the same kind of men—trained and learned clergymen—backed up their arguments with chapter and verse.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The chapter number and verse number (within a particular book) that locate a quotation from the Bible."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) The chapter number and verse number (within a particular book) that locate a quotation from the Bible."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Maud Churton Braby, “Polygamy at the polite dinner-table”, in Modern Marriage and How to Bear It:",
          "text": "‘I deny the first statement,’ said the Good Stockbroker heatedly. He was always heated where questions of morality were concerned, and was proceeding to give chapter and verse for what promised to become a somewhat dull discussion when the Bluestocking firmly interposed in her small staccato pipe:[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Specific references from an authoritative book or document, cited to support a statement or position."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The main suspect refused to answer any questions, but the police got chapter and verse from his accomplice.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:",
          "text": "She abounded in news of the situation at home, proved to him how perfectly she was arranging for his absence, told him who would take up this and who take up that exactly where he had left it, gave him in fact chapter and verse for the moral that nothing would suffer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very full and detailed information."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Very full and detailed information."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chapter and verse"
}