chapeller

English

Noun

chapeller (plural chapellers)

  1. Alternative form of chapeler
    • 1920, C. M. A. Peake, Eli of the Downs, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 72:
      […] since the festivity ended up with a free tea in the school to the congregation only, not even the most ardent “chapeller” objected. The chapel Harvest Thanksgiving, being purely voluntary, had to take place on a Sunday, […]
    • 1933, Caradoc Evans, Wasps, pages 32–33:
      He was an atheist and atheists and churchers cannot see him because he is inside them and if they did they would become chapellers.
    • 2008, Eugene Clay, “Mapping the Limits of Orthodoxy: Russian Orthodox Missionary Encounters in Perm’ Diocese, 1828-1912”, in Russian History, volume 35, number 1/2, pages 119–120:
      The chasovennye [chapellers], the vast majority of the Old Believers in the Urals and Siberia, earned their name from their practice of worshiping in chapels [chasovni]. […] With only a few itinerant priests, the chapellers resorted to chapels rather than churches for their sacred assemblies. Initially these chapellers were the least theologically radical of the priestly Old Believers.
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