Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving as a subsidiary church, or chapel of ease (which see, under chapel).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective subsidiary (to a religious establishment)
  • adjective Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.

Etymologies

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Compare French succursale. See succour.

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