chapel

[chap·el]

A chapel is a place of worship. It's usually smaller than a church, and it has its own altar.

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A subordinate place of worship

Noun
a service conducted in a chapel; "he was late for chapel"

Noun
a place of worship that has its own altar

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.

Chapel

Chap"el , n. [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. &hand; 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.

Chapel

Chap"el , v. t. 1. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 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.

A subordinate place of worship

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

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Usage Examples

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

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Other Usage Examples

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.