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Chaplainship   Listen
noun
Chaplainship  n.  
1.
The office or business of a chaplain. "The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship."
2.
The possession or revenue of a chapel.





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"Chaplainship" Quotes from Famous Books



... George Montagu in town to-morrow: his brother has at last got a regiment. Not content with having deserved it, before he got it, by distinguished bravery and indefatigable duty, he persists in meriting it still. He immediately, unasked, gave the chaplainship (which others always sell advantageously) to his brother's parson at Greatworth. I am almost afraid it will make my commendation of this really handsome action look interested, when I add, that he has obliged me in the same ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... Manchester college: but, happening also to be warden, the court held that his power was suspended during the union of those offices; and therefore issued a peremptory mandamus to him, as warden, to admit a person intitled to a chaplainship[g]. Also it is said[h], that if a founder of an eleemosynary foundation appoints a visitor, and limits his jurisdiction by rules and statutes, if the visitor in his sentence exceeds those rules, an action lies against him; but it is otherwise, where he mistakes ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone


Words linked to "Chaplainship" :   situation, chaplaincy, office, post, place, position, chaplain, billet, spot


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