| 单词 | to keep a chapel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep a chapel a. A chapel service, attendance at the service in a chapel. Hence in college phrase, to keep a chapel, to attend chapel on a single occasion; to keep one's chapels, to fulfil the prescribed number of attendances; so to miss a chapel, lose a chapel, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > in chapel > [noun] chapel1662 chapel-service- 1662 S. Pepys Diary 14 Dec. (1970) III. 281 Walked..up and down till Chappell-time. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ix. 180 Without danger of reprobation, because chapel was missed. View more context for this quotation 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis I. 168 After hall they went to Mr. Buck's to take wine; and after wine to chapel. 1882 C. Kegan Paul in Cent. Mag. XXIV. 275 At Oxford, the daily chapel, so often a formal observance, still had its effect on many minds. 1889 N.E.D. at Chapel Mod. ‘You must keep your chapels’. < as lemmas |
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