Definition of Chaplain

1. Noun. A clergyman ministering to some institution.


Definition of Chaplain

1. n. An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

Definition of Chaplain

1. Noun. A member of the clergy officially assigned to an institution, group, private chapel, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chaplain

1. a clergyman attached to a chapel [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaplain

chaperoneship
chaperonin
chaperonin 10
chaperonin 60
chaperoning
chaperonins
chaperons
chapes
chapess
chapesses
chapfallen
chapiter
chapiters
chapka
chapkas
chaplain (current term)
chaplaincies
chaplaincy
chaplains
chaplainship
chaplainships
chapless
chaplet
chapleted
chaplets
chapman
chapmanite
chapmanites
chapmen
chappa

Literary usage of Chaplain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"When such chaplains had increased to a large number, in France, an arch-chaplain was appointed as their superior. From the time of Charlemagne onwards, ..."

2. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1864)
"communication between prisoners and their friends, through tie kind offices of the chaplain. Every third Tuesday, Mr. Luckey goes down to New York expressly ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"In every garrison town there is a military church in which the chaplain officiates; ... There is no specific age at which a German chaplain must retire, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He was honorary chaplain to the Queen in 1878-81 and chaplain in ordinary in 1881-1901, and since 1001 he has been chaplain in ordinary to the king. ..."

5. Lives of the Queens of England: from the Norman conquest by Agnes Strickland (1848)
"The point of contest was, her refusal to deliver up her chaplain, Dr. Hopton, her officer, sir Francis Inglefield, and her comptroller, Rochester, ..."

6. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"DUTIES OF THE chaplain. The chaplain shall attend at the commencement {•47. Duties of the of each day's sitting of the House and ch»pi»tn. open the same ..."

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