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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



... the dining-room she found that most of the girls had eaten breakfast and gone off to chapel. Happening to recall that she had not attended the morning services for a week, and with visions of her unsigned chapel card staring her in the face, she ate a hurried breakfast and was about to depart when her eyes happened to rest upon the bulletin board in the hall around ...
— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower

... about two hundred years. It was situated on the south side of the town, on a rising ground, and was chiefly composed of brick and stone; the rooms were spacious and magnificent, attached to which was a costly private chapel. The building had two lofty towers of immense size, one of them containing a large hall, great chambers, bedchambers, kitchen, cellars, and all other offices. The other was called the kitchen tower. Parts of the wall of the hall, chapel, and kitchen, are still remaining, which display a grand and ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 265, July 21, 1827 • Various

... the public schools of Eton and Westminster histrionics was included amongst the subjects taught. The singing school at St. Paul's studied the art with equal industry. Most famous of all, the choir boys of the royal chapel took rank as expert performers. It was doubtless for Eton, Westminster, Merchant Taylors' and other schools that such plays as The Disobedient Child and The Marriage of Wit and Science were written. ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne

... had been fought. Each day increased the uneasiness. The Princes and the principal noblemen of the Court were at the army. Every one at Versailles feared for the safety of a relative or friend. Prayers were offered everywhere. Madame de Bourgogne passed whole nights in the chapel, when people thought her in bed, and drove her women to despair. Following her example, ladies who had husbands at the army stirred not from the churches. Gaming, conversation ceased. Fear was painted upon every face, and seen in every speech, without shame. ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... to Mrs. Ruskin; noblemen of sporting tastes, who rode and betted and drank, and got their impositions written "by men attached to the University for the purpose, at 1s.6d. to 2s.6d., so you have only to reckon how much you will give to avoid chapel." And yet they were very nice fellows. If they began by riding on John's back round the quad, they did not give him the cold shoulder—quite the reverse. He was asked everywhere to wine; he beat them all at chess; and they invaded him ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood


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