Forms: 6 chappelanry, 7 -lanry, -linary, 9 -lenary, 8– -lainry. [f. as prec. + -RY.] = prec. (Sc. and chiefly Hist.)
1560. 1st Bk. Discipline, viii. (1836), 55. Chanteries, colledges, chappelanries.
a. 1662. Heylin, Hist. Presbyt. (1849), 297 (D.). Enabling Lay-Patrons to dispose of their Prebendaries and Chaplinaries unto Students.
1800. A. Carlyle, Autobiog. (1860), 506. He might have a lieutenancy, or the chaplainry if he liked it better.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. II. vii. 315, note. There was a chaplainry of St. Ninian attached to the cathedral church of Ross.
