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chapel of ease

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.
  1. a chapel in a remote part of a large parish, in which Mass is celebrated.


chapel of ease

noun

  1. a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chapel of ease1

First recorded in 1530–40
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Example Sentences

There is no pretension about the place, though it can boast one hotel, a modern chapel-of-ease, and the usual small conventicles.

Whitechapel takes its name from a white chapel-of-ease built to relieve Stepney, in which parish this district was till 1763.

At the chapel-of-ease attended by the troops there arose above the edge of the pulpit one Sunday an unknown face.

Meantime you have no church to go to nearer than Barmstoke, which is a chapel-of-ease to this place, but two miles distant.

Skelwick was only a chapel-of-ease to North Ditton, and before Mr. Gascoyne's time the place had been much neglected.

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