chapeller

C3H4A1P3E1L1L1E1R1

A form of chapeler — A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounchapeller (plural chapellers)

plural chapellers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of chapeler.

    He was an atheist and atheists and churchers cannot see him because he is inside them and if they did they would become chapellers.

    1933, Caradoc Evans, Wasps, pages 32–33
    2 more examples

    […]since the festivity ended up with a free tea in the school to the congregation only, not even the most ardent “chapeller” objected. The chapel Harvest Thanksgiving, being purely voluntary, had to take place on a Sunday,[…]

    1920, C. M. A. Peake, Eli of the Downs, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 72

    The chasovennye [chapellers], the vast majority of the Old Believers in the Urals and Siberia, earned their name from their practice of worshiping in chapels [chasovni].[…]With only a few itinerant priests, the chapellers resorted to chapels rather than churches for their sacred assemblies. Initially these chapellers were the least theologically radical of the priestly Old Believers.

    2008, Eugene Clay, “Mapping the Limits of Orthodoxy: Russian Orthodox Missionary Encounters in Perm’ Diocese, 1828-1912”, in Russian History, volume 35, number 1/2, pages 119–120
Cite this entry
APA

chapeller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapeller

MLA

“chapeller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapeller. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chapeller,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapeller.

Source: chapeller on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.