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Chapel   /tʃˈæpəl/   Listen
noun
Chapel  n.  
1.
A subordinate place of worship; as,
(a)
A small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial;
(b)
A small building attached to a church;
(c)
A room or recess in a church, containing an altar. Note: In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey churches, chapels are usually annexed in the recesses on the sides of the aisles.
2.
A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
3.
In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
4.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
5.
(Print.)
(a)
A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
(b)
An association of workmen in a printing office.
Chapel of ease.
(a)
A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church.
(b)
A privy. (Law)
Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra.
To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2.
To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.



verb
Chapel  v. t.  
1.
To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. (Obs.)
2.
(Naut.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.






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"Chapel" Quotes from Famous Books



... here mentions, as expected from Cornwall, were those required in proof of the marriage of Admiral Byron with Miss Trevanion, the solemnisation of which having taken place, as it appears, in a private chapel at Carhais, no regular certificate of the ceremony could be produced. The delay in procuring other evidence, coupled with the refusal of Lord Carlisle to afford any explanations respecting his family, interposed those difficulties ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore

... a long road running through a bog," he writes in "In West Kerry," "with a smooth mountain on one side and the sea on the other, and Brandon in front of me, partly covered with clouds. As far as I could see there were little groups of people on their way to the chapel at Ballyferriter, the men in homespun and the women wearing blue cloaks, or, more often, black shawls twisted over their heads. This procession along the olive bogs, between the mountains and the sea, on ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt

... their enemies, must organize and let the ramifications of unshackled thought spread through the lands, and must, above all, conserve the control of education. Whereever there is a church or chapel, let there be beside it a hall or club, in which shall be inculcated the simple doctrines ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer • Charles Sotheran

... he entered Mr. Guinness's College, employing his free time in distributing Gospels, &c., on board foreign ships, and assisting every Sunday at the services in the Spanish Chapel, thus gaining experience for future work in the vineyard. He spoke most warmly of the kindness of Miss Macpherson, and the happy hours spent in the 'dear Home of Industry,' where, at a previous workers' ...
— God's Answers - A Record Of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the - Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada • Clara M. S. Lowe

... "that of raising a laugh." The introduction of Fortinbras and his army on the stage is "an Absurdity"; the grave-diggers' scene is "very unbecoming to tragedy"; the satire on the "Children of the Chapel" is not allowable ...
— Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) • Anonymous


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