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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



... interred with that of her husband in the Tower. But a tradition has just been communicated to me by the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, that the body was privately brought from London by a servant of the family, and deposited in the chapel at ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 • Various

... hereafter." Thence into the House, and there spied a pretty woman with spots on her face, well clad, who was enquiring for the guard chamber; I followed her, and there she went up, and turned into the turning towards the chapel, and I after her, and upon the stairs there met her coming up again, and there kissed her twice, and her business was to enquire for Sir Edward Bishop, one of the serjeants at armes. I believe she ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... Agata we connect one of the great bishops of the fifth century, Joannes Angeloptes, who was there served at Mass by an angel. While with the beautiful little chapel in the bishop's palace, which still, in some sort at least, remains to us, we connect perhaps the greatest bishop Ravenna can boast of, S. Peter ...
— Ravenna, A Study • Edward Hutton

... name of Crewe to be carved in stone over the doorway. The indifference of the town pained him, and he was naturally not a little grieved at the lack of proper feeling of the country people of America towards those who would better their conditions. He had put a large memorial window in the chapel to his family. ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... The Chapel was situated in the south-east angle of the jail; the ordinary at the time of this history being the Reverend Thomas Purney; the deputy ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth


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