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Definition of Chiefly

Chiefly
Chiefly Chief"ly, adv. 1. In the first place; principally; pre["e]minently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. --Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where the . . . estates of the dissenters chiefly lay. --Swift.

Meaning of Chiefly from wikipedia

- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer is a book by C. S. Lewis, published posthumously in 1964. The book takes the form of a series of letters to a fictional...
- coherent whole. Some of these categories of artifacts were used as markers of chiefly office, which varied from one location to another. The term Southeast Ceremonial...
- Poems, Chiefly Lyrical is a poetry collection by Alfred Tennyson, published in June 1830. The poems are fifty-six in number: Claribel. Lilian. Isabel...
- entering a religious order; such a person then typically becomes known chiefly by that name. The order given name – family name, commonly known as Western...
- and ultimate responsibility for governance. Three of the territories are chiefly or only inhabited by military or scientific personnel, the rest hosting...
- father's life. Chiefly ancestral altars have a similar form to commoner's ancestral altars but are more highly decorated. Specific to chiefly ancestral altars...
- between crows and ravens; the two names are ****igned to different species chiefly based on their size. The largest raven species are the common raven and...
- "Chiefly About War Matters", originally credited "by a Peaceable Man", is an 1862 essay by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The essay was inspired...
- an English translation of the second edition was published as Travels, chiefly on Foot, through several parts of England in 1782, described in Letters...
- to peace and stability in Fiji. Nailatikau continued his attack on the chiefly system with a Parliamentary speech on 10 March. Fijian culture and traditions...