Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
chaplain .
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Examples
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It is a curious fact that, while the laws forbid priests to enter primary schools, they have, up to the present, admitted to the secondary schools chapl; ains paid out of the public purse; the Government feared that if this guarantee of religious training were wanting parents would send their children to private schools.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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[(W) -8 (e) 2 (weave t) -4 (h) -2 (e chapl) -4 (e) 2 (t) -4 (and we crown t) -4 (h) -2 (e bowl) -4 (,)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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