CHAPEL

Definitions

1. 1. A subordinate place of worship; as,
2. 2. a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial;
3. 3. a small building attached to a church;
4. 4. a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
5. 5. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
6. 6. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
7. 7. A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
8. 8. A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
9. 9. An association of workmen in a printing office. Chapel of ease.
10. 10. 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.