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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cacique .
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Examples
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Each landgrave shall have four baronies, and each cassique two baronies, hereditarily and unalterably annexed to, and settled upon, the said dignity.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Whosoever, by the right of inheritance, shall come to be landgrave or cassique, shall take the name and arms of his predecessor in that dignity, to be from thenceforth the name and arms of his family and their posterity.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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No landgrave or cassique shall be tried for any criminal cause in any but the chief justice's court, and that by a jury of his peers.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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No man shall be capable of having a court-leet, or leet-men, but a proprietor, landgrave, cassique, or lord of a manor.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Every lord of a manor, within his manor, shall have all the powers, jurisdictions, and privileges, which a landgrave or cassique have in his baronies.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Palatine's court shall not settle the devolved dignity, with the baronies thereunto annexed, before the second biennial parliament after such devolution; the next biennial parliament but one after such devolution shall have power to make any one landgrave or cassique in the room of him, who, dying without heirs, his dignity and baronies devolved.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Any landgrave or cassique at any time before the year one thousand seven hundred and one shall have power to alienate, sell, or make over, to any other person, his dignity, with the baronies thereunto belonging, all entirely together.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Another species of cassique, as large as a crow, is very common in the plantations.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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Up the rivers, in the interior, there is another cassique, nearly the same size and of the same habits, though not gifted with its powers of imitation.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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The proportions of the cassique are so fine that he may be said to be a model of symmetry in ornithology.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
chained_bear commented on the word cassique
"The English speakers must have been careful with their hosts, because the leader, or cassique, of the Natives, a tribe known as the Kiawah, took an interest. The cassique led the Carolina a ship north to a handsome bay formed by two rivers. This new landing place lay about 250 miles north of St. Augustine, Florida, where the Spanish, hated colonial rivals of Britain, sat grimly in their forts. The English settled just inland from the ocean on a marshy riverbend."
—Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (NY: Ballantine Books, 1998), 28
September 26, 2009