capellane
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See chaplain.
Noun
[edit]capellane (plural capellanes)
- Obsolete spelling of chaplain.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
- inform them of the dignities and duties of the […] capellane , ostiary , vestiary , ceroferary […]
References
[edit]- “capellane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.