Chapeler
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chapeler is a noun meaning A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
Meaning
A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
More Meanings
- A maker of caps.
Example Sentences
He said he would get his own back on the ‘chapelers,’ and die.
“Do not be annoyed,” writes the editor of The Homilist to his son, “by the idle gossip and stupid prejudice of chapelers.[…]”
“Parson Budd be a tremendous Church-of-Englander, so I heard squire say. He ’ve got his knife into all chapelers an’ free-thinkers an’ such like.”
A marked feature of the old trades of London was the minute subdivisions which took place among them: thus there were hatters, cappers, chapelers (makers of caps) and hurers.
Word Forms
- chapelers
- chapeller
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include separatist, antisacerdotalist, sectarian, schismatic, seceder.
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