Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chapel subject to a more important church; an ecclesiastical foundation subordinate to some other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
chapel within thejurisdiction of achurch ; asubordinate ecclesiastical foundation .
Etymologies
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Compare English chapellenie, Latin capellania. See chaplain.
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