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Definition of Chieftains
1. chieftain [n] - See also: chieftain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chieftains
Literary usage of Chieftains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland Past and Present by Augustus J. Thébaud, John Habberton (1878)
"The mansions of the chieftains were neither large architectural piles, ...
They were often called upon by their chieftains to -t contribute to their support ..."
2. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1880)
"CONTINUATION OF TRANSITIONAL MANIFESTATION* AMONG RELIGIOUS Chieftains. IT will
be remembered, that, the subject of the last lecture was particularly ..."
3. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"The Raja of Bhurtpore, one of the allied Chieftains, joins with Holkar.— Unsuccessful
Attack upon the Fortress of Bhurtpore.— Accommodation with the Raja of ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... to tranquillize it by light assessments and stipends to the chieftains, yet
these measures only extended to the lowland tracts along the river banks, ..."
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