chancel table (chanselta"bl)

A communion-table within the chancel. chancelyt (chans'li), adv. [ And [zif it] be so that eny deb at chaunselich falle among eny of hem, that god defende, they beynge in deb at shul sha we and come the cause of her deb at to the wardeins of the forsaide brotherhede. English Gilds (E. E. T. S), p. 4. chance-medley (chans'med"li), n. and a. I. n. 1. In law : ( a ) Originally, a casual affray or riot, accompanied with violence, and without deliberate or preconceived malice. ( b ) The killing of another in self-defense, upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. The prisoner pleaded inadvertency; and the jury were going to bring it in chance medley, had not several witne es been produced against the said Elizabeth Makebate, that she was an old offender. Add is on , Cases of False Delicacy. Hence-2t. Misadventure. May he cut a collier's throat with his razor, by chance medley, and yet be hanged for't. B. Jonson, Epicœne, iii. 2. 3. A haphazard mixture; a fortuitous combination. Wherefore they are no twain, but one flesh; this is true in the general right of marriage, but not in the chance medley of every particular match. Milton , Tetrachord on (Ord MS.). Who there will court thy friendship, with what views, And, artle as thou art, whom thou wilt choose, Is all chance - medley , and unknown to me. Cowper , Tirocinium. II. a . Haphazard. The Moors' line was broken by the shock, squadron after squadron was thrown into confusion, Moors and Christians were intermingled, until the field became one scene of desperate chance - medley fighting. Irving, Moorish Chronicles, p. 73.