资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Chiefest \Chief"est\, a. [Superl. of {Chief}.]
   First or foremost; chief; principal. [Archaic] ``Our chiefest
   courtier.'' --Shak.

         The chiefest among ten thousand.         --Canticles v.
                                                  10.