Definition of "military chaplain" [military chaplain]

• A chaplain in one of the military services (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "At Cologne the church of the Catholic military chaplain had been turned over by the Government to the Old Catholics, whereupon the Head-Chaplain of the troops forbade his subordinate to hold there the usual Catholic services."
• "There he was successively a missionary, superior of the mission, and military chaplain until, in 1901, he was sent to the Kwango mission."
• "Bloemfontein, Father Hoendervangers of the Order of Saint Norbert, who had followed the troops as military chaplain during a war between the British and Boers in 1854."