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CHAPLAIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A clergyman ministering to some institution
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chaplain" is a kind of...):
clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chaplain"):
prison chaplain (a chaplain in a prison)
hospital chaplain (a chaplain in a hospital)
Holy Joe; military chaplain; padre; sky pilot (a chaplain in one of the military services)
Derivation:
chaplainship (the position of chaplain)
Context examples:
When the chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband—oh, Lucy, it is the first time I have written the words 'my husband'—left me alone with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing-wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Yet they have souls, fair lady, they have souls!” murmured the chaplain, a white-haired man with a weary, patient face.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was a five-hundred-ton boat, and besides her thirty-eight gaol-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your uncle, and his brother admirals, perhaps knew little of clergymen beyond the chaplains whom, good or bad, they were always wishing away.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Tristram, this chaplain of yours seems to me to be a worthy man, and you should give heed to his words, for though I care nothing for the curse of a bad pope, it would be a grief to me to have aught but a blessing from a good priest.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sham chaplain came into our cells to exhort us, carrying a black bag, supposed to be full of tracts, and so often did he come that by the third day we had each stowed away at the foot of our beds a file, a brace of pistols, a pound of powder, and twenty slugs.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The young Mrs. Eleanors and Mrs. Bridgets—starched up into seeming piety, but with heads full of something very different—especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at—and, in those days, I fancy parsons were very inferior even to what they are now.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then we rushed on into the captain’s cabin, but as we pushed open the door there was an explosion from within, and there he lay with his brains smeared over the chart of the Atlantic which was pinned upon the table, while the chaplain stood with a smoking pistol in his hand at his elbow.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Poor William! He has met with great kindness from the chaplain of the Antwerp,” was a tender apostrophe of Fanny's, very much to the purpose of her own feelings if not of the conversation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
