chapel
(noun) a place of worship that has its own altar
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chapel (plural chapels)
(especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
(UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
A printing office.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
chapel (not comparable)
(Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
chapel (third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle chapelling, simple past and past participle chapelled)
(nautical, transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
(obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
• Lepcha, cephal-, pleach
Chapel (plural Chapels)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Chapel is the 13300th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2293 individuals. Chapel is most common among White (74.4%) and Black/African American (15.48%) individuals.
• Lepcha, cephal-, pleach
Source: Wiktionary
Chap"el, n. Etym: [OF. chapele, F. chapelle, fr. LL. capella, orig., a short cloak, hood, or cowl; later, a reliquary, sacred vessel, chapel; dim. of cappa, capa, cloak, cape, cope; also, a covering for the head. The chapel where St. Martin's cloak was preserved as a precious relic, itself came to be called capella, whence the name was applied to similar paces of worship, and the guardian of this cloak was called capellanus, or chaplain. See Cap, and cf. Chaplain., Chaplet.]
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. Gwilt.
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 orchastra, 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.
Chap"el, v. t.
1. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 April 2024
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