Definition of Chiefer

1. chief [adj] - See also: chief

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefer

chief mate
chief of staff
chief of state
chief operating officer
chief petty officer
chief petty officers
chief scientist
chiefage
chiefdom
chiefdoms
chiefe
chiefer (current term)
chiefery
chiefes
chiefess
chiefesses
chiefest
chiefless
chiefly
chiefrie
chiefries
chiefry
chiefs
chiefs of state
chiefship
chiefships

Literary usage of Chiefer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diary of a Milliner by Caroline H. Woods (1867)
"Undoubtedly one reason of the different view which male reformers take of the chiefer end of woman from what I do, is the different way in which we stand ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The bladder's movements are both active and passive, but the former are of chiefer interest and alone are considered here. The experiments were conducted ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"... but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government of the Church as diffused throughout the world; or that he has only the chiefer parts, ..."

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