单词 | chieftainry |
释义 | chieftainry|ˈtʃiːftɪnrɪ| [f. as prec. + -ry.] 1. The rank of chieftain, chieftaincy; the rule or territory of a chieftain.
1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 189 They were..divided into the like petty chieftaineries as we find them to have been in Wales. 1773Johnson Lett. I. lxxx. 144 The Laird..has sometimes disputed the chieftainry of the clan with Macleod of Skie. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. v. 366 The..chieftainry of Fergus descended to his son. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 326 A county of half-barbarian chieftainries. 2. A body of chieftains collectively.
1807Annual Rev. V. 584 An aristocratic chieftainry. 1836B. D. Walsh Aristoph. Acharnians ii. iv, Not thought to hate the chieftainry. |

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