Chapel
['tʃæp(ə)l] or ['tʃæpl]
Definition
(n.) A subordinate place of worship
(n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
(n.) a small building attached to a church
(n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
(n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
(n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
(n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
(n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
(n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
(v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
(v. t.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Church, temple, meeting-house, place of worship.
Typist: Nelly
Definition
n. a place of worship inferior or subordinate to a regular church or attached to a palace garrison prison school college &c.: an oratory in a mausoleum &c. or a cell of a church containing its own altar: a dissenters' place of worship as of Nonconformists in England Roman Catholics or Episcopalians in Scotland &c.: a chapel service—hence 'to keep one's chapels'—to make the requisite number of attendances at such: an association of workmen in a printing-office.—n. Chap′elry the jurisdiction of a chapel.—Chapel cart (see Cart).—Chapel of ease a chapel for worshippers far from the parish church; Chapel Royal the oratory of a royal palace; Lady chapel such a chapel dedicated to the Virgin; Proprietary chapel one that is the property of a private person or persons.
Typist: Owen
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a chapel, denotes dissension in social circles and unsettled business. To be in a chapel, denotes disappointment and change of business. For young people to dream of entering a chapel, implies false loves and enemies. Unlucky unions may entangle them.
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Examples
- They were alone together in the chapel, to which her mother did not object when its purpose was explained to her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This is not my idea of a chapel. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Methought I heard a noise, a step in the far chapel, which was re-echoed by its vaulted roof, and borne to me through the hollow passages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Other accounts make Charles wear a shroud and lie in the coffin, remaining there alone until the last mourner had left the chapel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My lodgings in Little Britain being too remote, I found another in Duke-street, opposite to the Romish Chapel. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The Last Supper is painted on the dilapidated wall of what was a little chapel attached to the main church in ancient times, I suppose. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Greek Chapel is the most roomy, the richest and the showiest chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Cannot you imagine with what unwilling feelings the former belles of the house of Rushworth did many a time repair to this chapel? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This chapel was fitted up as you see it, in James the Second's time. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I proposed some reasonable alterations in their _chapel_[8] laws, and carried them against all opposition. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is a handsome chapel, and was formerly in constant use both morning and evening. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But if Briar Chapel seemed alive, so also did Briarmains, though certainly the mansion appeared to enjoy a quieter phase of existence than the temple. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One wishes it were not so; but I have not yet left Oxford long enough to forget what chapel prayers are. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The chapel was hung with black, and the blaze of hundreds of wax-lights was scarcely sufficient to dispel the darkness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The chapel of the Syrians is not handsome; that of the Copts is the humblest of them all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Catholic chapels stand upon these sites and protect the little fragments of the ancient walls which remain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Wot an inwalable boy that'll make, for the old ladies' pockets in chapels! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Women rushed to the churches, and crowded the chapels, and knelt and prayed on the flags and steps. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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