Easton's Bible Dictionary A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel "the king's chapel." Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (n.) A subordinate place of worship 2. (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial 3. (n.) a small building attached to a church 4. (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar. 5. (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison. 6. (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse. 7. (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman. 8. (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. 9. (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office. 10. (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. 11. (v. t.) 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.
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