[f. prec. + -CY: a modern term, which probably began in the Army; cf. captaincy, etc.] The office or position of a chaplain; = the earlier CHAPLAINSHIP.
a. 1745. Swift, Lett. (T.). The chaplaincy was refused to me, and given to Dr. Lambert.
1821. Fosbroke, Aricon., 183. I … was offered a Chaplaincy in the Forces.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 291. The promotion of Latimer to a royal chaplaincy.
1878. Clergy List, 414. Foreign Chaplaincies … are under the superintendence of the Bishop of London.
