[f. as prec. + -SHIP.] The office of a chaplain; chaplaincy.
1536. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 42 § 1, in Oxf. & Camb. Enactm., 13 Dimishippees, Brotherodes, Chaplenshippes.
1645. Milton, Colast., Wks. (1851), 347. To pop into the Bethesda of som Knights Chaplainship.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 164. A secular Chaplainship or Capellania was that, which men built and founded on their own Estates, and in their own proper Houses.
1846. Macaulay, in Life & Lett. (1880), II. 181. The Chaplainship of Chelsea Hospital.
b. humorous. As a title: (After lordship, etc.)
1589. Pasquil’s Ret., D iiij. Seeing you come to his Chaplinship.
