chapel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar

   The children were late for chapel.

2. 2
   noun

   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. 3
   adj

   Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

   The village butcher is chapel.

4. 4
   verb

   To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

   Give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

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.

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