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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See cheelaship.

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Examples

  • The faithful hermetists await the light, ripe for chelaship, ringroundabout him.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Kim came from the top of Zam-Zanneh to his chelaship with Teshoo Lama.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • The faithful hermetists await the light, ripe for chelaship, ringroundabout him.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • H.P.B. was always extremely strict on this particular point, and _many_ [my itals.] would-be aspirants for chelaship were refused on this one ground alone, while others who had been accepted "on probation" failed almost immediately afterwards. [

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

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