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See also:Chancel

English

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchchancel.Doublet ofcancellus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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chancel (pluralchancels)

  2. Thespace around thealtar in achurch orcathedral, often enclosed, for use by theclergy and thechoir.In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from thenave by analtar screen.
    Holonyms:church,cathedral
    Near-synonyms:presbytery,sanctuary,apse(allbroadly synonymous)
    2. (broadly) The entire end of the church in which the altar stands, including the apse and the ambulatory.
      Meronyms:presbytery,sanctuary,apse,ambulatory
    4. (precisely) A certain central portion of that end of the church, excluding the apse and the ambulatory.
      Synonyms:presbytery,sanctuary
      Comeronyms:apse,ambulatory
    • 1577,Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e.,Richard Stanihurst], “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne ofHenry the Eyght:[...].”, inThe Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne,→OCLC,pages77–78, column 2:
      The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of ye Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon[sic – meaningrandom] uppe to the Roode lofte, and to theChancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
    • 1907 January,Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, inThe Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen,→OCLC:
      Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on thechancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

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Translations

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space around the altar in a church

French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchchancel, fromLatincancellus.

Noun

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chancel m (pluralchancels)

  1. chancel

Further reading

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Old French

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Etymology

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FromLatincancellus.

Noun

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chanceloblique singular, m (oblique pluralchanceausorchanceaxorchanciausorchanciaxorchancels,nominative singularchanceausorchanceaxorchanciausorchanciaxorchancels,nominative pluralchancel)

  1. chancel

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