Chaplain
['tʃæplɪn]
Definition
(n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
(n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
(n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.
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Definition
n. a clergyman attached to a ship of war a regiment a public institution or private family.—ns. Chap′laincy Chap′lainry Chap′lainship.
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Examples
- Let our buxom chaplain stand forth, and expound to this reverend father the texts which concern this matter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I think it was so splendid in Father to go as chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier, said Meg warmly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Be my chaplain, and tell me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The pay of a curate or chaplain, however, may very properly be considered as of the same nature with the wages of a journeyman. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He was a deacon in the church which had been defiled by the occupation of Union troops, and by a Union chaplain filling the pulpit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It would be indecent, no doubt, to compare either a curate or a chaplain with a journeyman in any common trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And drink it on the spot,' said the chaplain. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Prayers were always read in it by the domestic chaplain, within the memory of many; but the late Mr. Rushworth left it off. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And I might use him for a family chaplain, possibly, added the young man, dryly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On inquiring for such a man Chaplain Eaton, now and for many years the very able United States Commissioner of Education, was suggested. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is many a goodly herd in these forests, and a buck will never be missed that goes to the use of Saint Dunstan's chaplain. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Why, he's the chaplain of this ship--the chaplain, no less! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is something in a chapel and chaplain so much in character with a great house, with one's ideas of what such a household should be! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Walter Tyke became chaplain to the Infirmary, and Lydgate continued to work with Mr. Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Army chaplains were authorized to occupy the pulpit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Your uncle, and his brother admirals, perhaps knew little of clergymen beyond the chaplains whom, good or bad, they were always wishing away. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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