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Chapel

//ˈt͡ʃæp.əl// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel. Wales, not-comparable

    "The village butcher is chapel."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church. especially
  2. 2
    a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar wordnet
  3. 3
    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.

    "One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”"

  4. 4
    a place of worship that has its own altar wordnet
  5. 5
    A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations. UK
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  1. 6
    A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
  2. 7
    A trade union branch in printing or journalism. UK
  3. 8
    A printing office.
  4. 9
    A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Verb
  1. 1
    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. transitive
  2. 2
    To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. obsolete, transitive

    "give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

Etymology 3

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

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