| Chapel (chapel) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Chap"el |
| [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.
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A
subordinate place of worship
A place of worship not connected with
a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or
prison.
In England, a place of worship used by
dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra,
attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
A
printing office, said to be so called because printing was first
carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
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| Chapel (chapel) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Chap"el |
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To deposit or inter in a chapel; to
enshrine.
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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