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chapeler

chapeler noun: a member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.

Noun

chapeler (plural chapelers)

  1. A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
    • There was but little discord between church and chapel, except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an unopened pocket-handkerchief, and a sprig of boy’s love, might be seen marching, like...1876, Edward Whitaker, “Tempus est Ludendi”, in Parley Magna. A Novel., volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 57
    • “Do not be annoyed,” writes the editor of The Homilist to his son, “by the idle gossip and stupid prejudice of chapelers.[…]”1902, David Morgan Thomas, Urijah Rees Thomas: His Life and Work, page 108
  2. A maker of caps.
    • A marked feature of the old trades of London was the minute subdivisions which took place among them: thus there were hatters, cappers, chapelers (makers of caps) and hurers.1909, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, The Story of London, page 301

Examples of chapeler in a sentence

  • He ’ve got his knife into all chapelers an’ free-thinkers an’ such like.”1903, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, page 40, column 2:
  • He said he would get his own back on the ‘chapelers,’ and die.1985, Fury Never Leaves Us: A Miscellany of Caradoc Evans, Poetry Wales Press, page 58:

Forms of chapeler

pluralchapelers
alternative formchapeller

Origin of chapeler

From chapel + -er.

Questions about chapeler

What does chapeler mean?
Chapeler means a member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
How do you use chapeler in a sentence?
He ’ve got his knife into all chapelers an’ free-thinkers an’ such like.”
What part of speech is chapeler?
Chapeler is a noun.
What is the plural of chapeler?
The plural of chapeler is chapelers.

Words near chapeler in the dictionary

  1. chapel-goers
  2. Chapel-le-Dale
  3. chapelayn
  4. chapelayns
  5. Chapelcross
  6. chapeler
  7. chapelers
  8. chapeless
  9. chapelet
  10. chapelets
  11. chapelgoer

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