chaplain• He acts as chaplain to the students.• He now leads a busy life as an honorarychaplain in York Minster.• Also patron of chaplains and militarychaplains.• By 1257 he was a canon of Lichfield and a papalchaplain.• Reverend Edwards is the new prisonchaplain.• His regiment's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles.• He was accused of molesting a 14-year-old boy whom he had been counselling while working as a school chaplain.• Never did I feel so tempted and pressed to relinquish the chaplain service and yield all to the control of Satan.
Originchaplain
(1100-1200)Old Frenchchapelain, from Medieval Latincappellanus, from cappella; → CHAPEL