chiefery noun6 •The status or role of a chief; chieftainship. •The land ruled over by a chief; chieftainship.I have said that Tautira was a large and powerful chiefery on the eastern side of the peninsula Taiarapu, which was balanced by Teahupoo, another large chiefery at the southern end. — 1901 •The form of government in which people are ruled by a chief.The conquest of new territories made it possible for the Zarma society to settle in hamlets and develop a political organization that assumed the characteristics of a chiefery. — 1979 •The leaders or chiefs of a people, collectively.If, as seems certain, the Hui Arii contingent intermarried with the local chiefery, this acceptance of the gods of the land would have been inevitable. — 1971 •A colonial administrative centre.After dinner at the chiefery we assembled on the courtyard veranda to hear the singing of the Papara himeme chorus. — 1911 •(historical) An Irish head taxThe outsider was aware that payment of chiefery to the lord was the norm, but that some within the lordship were refusing to pay it. — 1993 formschieferies
