Word Meanings - ARCHPRIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The chief primate. Milton.

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• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• PRIMATES
  The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.
• PRIMATE
  One of the Primates. (more info) 1. The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• CHIEF HARE
  A small rodent inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare. Note: It is not a true hare or rabbit, but belongs to the curious family Lagomyidæ.
• CHIEFTAINCY; CHIEFTAINSHIP
  The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.
• CHIEF-JUSTICESHIP
  The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• CHIEFRIE
  A small rent paid to the lord paramount. Swift.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• CHIEFTAIN
  A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan. Syn. -- Chief; commander; leader; head. See Chief. (more info) capitaine, LL. capitanus, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Captain, and see
• PRIMATESHIP
  The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.
• CHIEF BARON
  The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.
• CHIEF
  The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs. In chief. At the head; as, a commander in chief. From the king, or sovereign; as, tenure in chief, tenure directly from the king.
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; 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
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• ENKERCHIEFED
  Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.
• NECKERCHIEF
  A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
• MISCHIEFFUL
  Mischievous. Foote.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• KERCHIEFED; KERCHIEFT
  Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.
• MISCHIEF-MAKING
  Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe. -- n.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• ARCHPRIMATE
  The chief primate. Milton.