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Vinony

chapel

noun

  1. small place, building or room of Christian fellowship or worship, may be attached or not to a larger institution or part of a building
  2. small room dedicated to intentional observance, prayer, nonreligious contemplation, or ceremony
  3. small church building that is not a full parish church
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ / [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ] / [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]

adj

Etymology: 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.

  1. Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

    “The village butcher is chapel.”

name

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: 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.

  1. A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
  2. 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.””

  3. A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
  4. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
  5. A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
  6. A printing office.
  7. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

verb

Etymology: 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.

  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.
  2. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

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