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chapelled

chapelled is the simple past and past participle of chapel.

Meaning of chapel

Verb

chapel (third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle (US) chapeling or (UK) chapelling, simple past and past participle (US) chapeled or (UK) chapelled)

  1. (transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
    • give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please...

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Questions about chapelled

What is chapelled the simple past and past participle of?
Chapelled is the simple past and past participle of chapel.

Words near chapelled in the dictionary

  1. Chapelizod
  2. Chapell
  3. chapellanies
  4. chapellany
  5. chapelle ardente
  6. chapelled
  7. chapeller
  8. chapellers
  9. chapelless
  10. chapelling
  11. Chapells

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