chapeler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
Example Sentences
- "There was but little discord between church and chapel, except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an unopened pocket-handkerchief, and a sprig of boy’s love, might be seen marching, like any chapelers, to Zoar."
- "“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.”"
- "He said he would get his own back on the ‘chapelers,’ and die."
- "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."
Etymology
From chapel + -er.