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CHAPEL, n.

1. A house for public worship primarily, a private oratory, or house of worship belonging to a private person. In Great Britain there are several sorts of chapels as parochial chapels, distinct from the mother church chapels which adjoin to and are a part of the church such were formerly built by honorable persons for burying places chapels of ease, built in large parishes for the accommodation of the inhabitants free chapels, which were founded by the kings of England chapels in the universities, belonging to particular colleges domestic chapels, built by noblemen or gentlemen for the use of their families.
2. A printers workhouse said to be so called because printing was first carried on in a chapel.

CHAPEL, To deposit in a chapel.

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Entry for 'Chapel'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​c/chapel.html.
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