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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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... of Holy Week at Rome have been much spoken of. Foreigners come thither during Lent expressly to enjoy this spectacle; and as the music of the Sixtine Chapel and the illumination of St Peter's are beauties unique in themselves, it is natural that they should excite a lively curiosity; but expectation is not equally satisfied. The ceremonies themselves, properly ...

— Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) - Or Italy • Mme de Stael

... this was the oppressor; he saw only the man, fresh roused from sleep, with the horror of impending dissolution in his eyes. And when the rider, behind whom he sat, pointed to a faint spark of light, at no great distance before them, and whispered that it was St. Agnes's Chapel, hard by the inn, he could have cried with the best Catholic of them all, "Inter pontem et fontem, Domine!" Nay, some such words did ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... when they painted a Madonna or Ecce Homo they had still childlike belief in divinity. What does the pottery-painter of to-day care for the coat of arms or the religious subject he may be commissioned to execute for a dinner service or a chapel? It may be admirable painting—if you give a very high price—but it will still be ...

— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

... the Earl of Pembroke, was given a post as gentleman extraordinary and groom of the privy chamber to Anne of Denmark; and a few months after was appointed to take the oversight of the plays and shows that were performed by the children of the Queen's revels, or children of the Chapel, as they were called under Elizabeth. He had thus a snug position at Court, and might have been happy, had it been another Court. But in nothing was the accession of James more apparent than in the almost instantaneous blasting of the taste, manners, and ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen; A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on ...

— Poems of William Blake • William Blake

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