Chapel

A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel “the king’s chapel.”

CHAP'EL . The word occurs. Am 7:13, as a mistranslation for SANCTUARY, a place of worship. Bethel is called the king's sanctuary by one of the idol-priests, because there the king of Israel paid idolatrous worship to the golden calves. See Bethel.

CHAP'EL . The word occurs. Am 7:13, as a mistranslation for SANCTUARY, a place of worship. Bethel is called the king's sanctuary by one of the idol-priests, because there the king of Israel paid idolatrous worship to the golden calves. See Bethel.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A subordinate place of worship; as,

2. a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial;

3. a small building attached to a church;

4. a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

5. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

6. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

7. A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

8. A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

9. An association of workmen in a printing office. Chapel of ease.

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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.