Definition of Cheifly
Chief"ly (?), adv.
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 the . . . estates
of the dissenters chiefly lay.
Swift.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- especially or primarily; above all
- mainly or principally; almost entirely
- of, or relating to a chief
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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