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Ws befeech you, bend you to remain 
Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, 
Our chief eft courtier, coufin, and our foil. Shakefpeare. 
CHIEF,/ A military commander ; a leader of armies; 
a captain : 
A wit’s a feather, and a chief a rod; 
A n honeft man’s the nobleit work of God. Pope. 
A prudent chief not always muff difplay 
His pow’rs in equal ranks, and fair array ; 
But with th’ occasion and the place comply, 
Conceal his force, nay, fieem fornetim.es to fly. Pope. 
In Spenfer it feems to fignify fomewliat like achievement; 
a mark of diftindlion : 
Where be the nofegays that (lie dight for thee ? 
The coloured chaplets wrought with a chief, 
The knottifli rufh-rings, and gilt rofemary. Spenfer. 
In heraldry.—The chief is fo called of the French word 
chef, the. head or upper part: this poflefles the upper third 
part- of the elcutcheon. 
CHIEF-RENTS, the rents of freeholders of manors 
often fo called, i. e. reditus capitales. They are all'o de¬ 
nominated quit-rents, quieti reditus ; becaule thereby the 
tenant goes quit and free of all other fervic.es. 2 Com. 42. 
CHIEF-TENANTS, tenants in capite, holding imme¬ 
diately under the king, in right of his crown and dig¬ 
nity. See Capite, and Tenure. 
CHIEFfDOM, / Sovereignty. Not in ufe. —Zephyr us 
being in love with Chloris, and coveting her to wife, 
.gave her for a dowry the chief !om and fovereignty of all 
flowers and green herbs. Spenfer. 
CHIEF'LESS, adj, Wanting a head; being without a 
leader : 
And chiefefs armies doz’d out the campaign. 
And navies yawn’d for orders on the main. Pope. 
CHIEF'LY, adv. Principally; eminently; more than 
common.—Any man who will confider the nature of an 
epic poem, what actions it defcribes, and what perfons 
They are chiefly whom it informs, will find it a work full 
of difficulty. Dryden. 
CHIEF'RIE, f. A fmall rent paid to the lord para¬ 
mount.—Would the referved rent at this day be any more 
than a.fmall chiefrie? Swift. 
CHIEF'TAIN,/ Captain; a leader; a commander; 
the head of a clan.—It broke and abfolutely fubdued all 
the lords and chieftains of the Irilhry. Davies. 
CHIELEFA', a town of European Turkey, in the Mo- 
rea, near the gulf of Coron. It was taken by the Vene¬ 
tians in 1685. 
CHIEMSE'E, a lake of Germany, in the circle of Ba¬ 
varia; it contains feveral iflands, particularly Herren- 
werd and Frawenwerd, the former of which is the fee of 
a bifliop, fuffragan of Saltzburgh, founded in the thir¬ 
teenth century. 
CHIEN'TO, a river of Italy, in the ftate of the Church, 
which runs into the Adriatic, between Fermo and Re- 
canati. 
CHIE'RI, a town of Piedmont, fituated on the decli¬ 
vity of a hill, in an agreeable country, the air foft and 
healthy : the hills to the north and eaft are covered with 
vines, while thofe to the weft and fouth are covered with 
fruit-trees of different kinds; the land is fertile, and the 
inhabitants induftrious : they have manufaStures of cloth 
and filk. Its ancient name was Cherium, or Carium, and 
is called by the French Sluiers. It was burned by the 
emperor Frederic Barbarolfa, in the year 1154, but was 
foon after rebuilt. It is furrounded by an ancient wall 
defended by towers, with a foffe: and had formerly a 
foitrefs, named Rochetta, demolifhed in the fixteenth 
century. It has fix gates, and four grand fquares or pa¬ 
laces, many churches, and religious houfes, though only 
two parifhes within the walls, and one without: fix miles 
-eaft of Turin, Lat. 44. 45. N. Ion. 25. 25. E. Ferro. 
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CHIE'RS (La), a river of France, which runs into the 
Meufe, between Mouzon and Sedan. 
CHIE'SA (La), a river of Italy, which runs into the 
Oglio, at Caneto, in the Mantuan. 
CHIE'TI, a city of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and capital of the.province of Abruzzo Citra, the fee of 
an archbifhop, erefted by pope Clement VII. feventy-five 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Rome. Lat. 42. 22. N. Ion. 31. 46, 
E. Ferro. 
CHIET'TA (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Jura, and chief place of a canton, in the diltridt of 
Orgelet: eleven miles 'fiorth-eaft of Orgelet. 
CHIE'VANCE,/ [probably from acbevance, Fr. pur- 
chafe.] Traffic, in which money is extorted ; asdifcount. 
Noiv ohfolete .—There were good laws againft ufury, the 
baftard ufe of money; and againft unlawful chievances 
and exchanges, which is baftard ufury. Bacon. 
CHIE'VRES, a town of the Netherlands, in the county 
of Hainaut: four miles fouth of Ath. 
CHIEU'TI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Capitanata : thirteen miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Termola. 
CHIFTLET (John James), a phyfician, born at Be¬ 
fangon, a town of Franche Comte, in 1588. He was de- 
fcended from a family, which had greatly diftinguifhed 
itfelf by literary merit. He was educated at Belangon, 
and then travelled through feveral parts of Europe, where 
he became acquainted with all the men of letters, and 
made his way into the cabinets of the curious. At his 
return he applied himfelf to the pra&ice of phyfic; but 
being fent by the town of Befangon, where he had been 
conful, on an embafly to Elizabeth Clara Eugenia, arch- 
duchefs of the Low Countries, that princefs. prevailed on 
him to continue with her in quality of phyfician in ordi¬ 
nary. Afterwards he became phyfician to Philip IV. of 
Spain, who honoured him .very highly, and treated him 
with great kindnefs. Chifflet imagined, that thefe boun¬ 
ties and honours obliged him to take up arms againft 
all who were at variance with his mafter; and this in¬ 
duced him to write his book, intituled, “ Vindicia? Hif- 
panicae,” againft the French. He-wrote feveral pieces in 
Latin, which were both ingenious and learned. He died 
very old, and left a fon, John Chifflet, who afterwards 
made a figure in the republic of letters, and particularly 
for his knowledge of the Hebrew. He had another fon, 
called Julius Chifflet, well fkilled in languages and in 
the civil law, and who had the honour to be invited to 
Madrid by the king of Spain in 1648, where he was made 
chancellor of the order of the golden fleece. There were 
alfo Philip Chifflet, canon of Befangon ; Laurence and Pe¬ 
ter Francis Chifflet, jefuits; all men of high reputation in 
the learned world. 
CHIGGERON', a river of Afia, which rifes in Perfia, 
and runs into the Cafpian Sea, a little to the north of 
Amol. 
CHI'GI, (Fabio), or pope Alexander VII. was born at 
Sienna in 1599. In 1655 he was elected pope, by the votes 
of all the fixty-four cardinals who were in the conclave s 
an unanimity of which there are but few inftances in the 
election of popes. There is a volume of his poems ex¬ 
tant. He loved the Belles-Lettres , and the converfation 
of learned men. He was extremely fond of lfately build¬ 
ings : the grand plan of the college Della Sapienza, which 
he finifhed, and adorned with a fine library, remains a 
proof of his tafte in architefture. He died in 1667. 
CHIGNEC'TO, a town of Nova Scotia, on the coaft 
of the bay of Fundy, near which was a fmart adfion be¬ 
tween the Britifli troops, under, the command of major 
Lawrence, with home French and Indians, in 1749, mid 
another between the Britifh, under the command of lieu¬ 
tenant Scott, and the fame enemies, in 1756. 
CHI'GY-sur-VARME, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Yonne; two leagues and a half eaft-louth- 
eaft of Sens 
CHIHMECG'MET ISLAND, or Chickminock-cu- 
minock. 
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