Definition for FREE-CHAP'EL

FREE-CHAP'EL, n.

In England, a chapel founded by the king, and not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary. The king may also grant license to a subject to found such a chapel. Cowel. Free city, in Germany, an imperial city, not subject to a prince, but governed by its own magistrates. Encyc.

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