| 释义 |
chiefery, chiefry Chiefly Irish.|ˈtʃiːfərɪ, ˈtʃiːfrɪ|
Also 6 chefferie, cheuerie, -ye, 6–7 chiefrie, 7 cheifrie, cheeferie.
[f. chief n. + -ery, -ry.]
1. The office and territory of an Irish chief.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 11/1 Rothorike..left the chefferie which he demanded. 1607Davies 1st Let. Earl Salisbury (1787) 222 It was doubtful in whom the chiefrie of that country [Cavan] rested. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind ii. 15 Every Seignory or Chiefry in these Countries. 1885R. Bagwell Irel. under Tudors I. 13 Like a lay chiefry, the abbacy was elective.
†2. The body of chiefs or leading people. Obs.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 123 The chiefery, or greatest men of Ulster.
3. The institution of chiefs.
1887Athenæum 12 Mar. 345/3 To the clan-system, indeed, to ‘chiefery’, and to ‘Celtic feudalism’, the duke [of Argyll] ascribes all the evils of the Highlands.
4. The dues belonging to the chief or tanist of a clan or district; the analogous payment of tribute to the sovereign, or of rent to the lord superior.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 55/1 The Orians..denieng to paie their accustomable cheuerie, yeelded themselues vnto the earle of Ormond. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (1862) 542/2 Able..to yeeld her Maiesty reasonable chiefrie. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 169 These cheeferies..did consist cheefly in cuttings and cosheries and other Irish exactions. 1731Swift Consid. on Two Bills Wks. (1761) III. 211 Leaving a small chiefry for the minister to pay. 1884M. Hickson Irel. in 17th Cent. I. 93 Large tracts of land..for which they paid merely nominal chiefries to the Protestant owners in fee. |