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English
Noun
chapeller (plural chapellers)
- Alternative form of chapeler
1920, C. M. A. Peake, Eli of the Downs, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 72:[…] 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, […]
1933, Caradoc Evans, Wasps, pages 32–33:He was an atheist and atheists and churchers cannot see him because he is inside them and if they did they would become chapellers.
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: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.