Chichester, an ancient dty of Sussex, England, the see of a bishop. It was a Roman station. The present cathedral was built in the 13th century; it is 407 feet long, 150 wide, with a tower and si^re 3<M) feet high. The diocese comprises nearly the whole of Sw- sex, with a total population, in 1861, of S6a,785. It has 12 deaneries and 188,512 church sittmgs. The present (1867) bishop is Achmet Turner Gilbert, DD^ consecrated in 1842. Two provincial conncila wen held here, in 1289 and 1292, convened by Gflbert,bisfaep of Chichester.— Landon, Manual qf CoundU, p. 180.
Chiohele, Chiohley, or Chioheley, Heitbt, archbishop of Canterbury, was bom at Higham Ferren in 1862, and was educated at Oxford. In 1407 he was consecrated bishop of StJDavid's by Pope Gregory XII, and in 1409 he was sent to represent the province of Can- terbury at the Council of I^ (q. v.). In 1415 he be- came archbishop of Canterbury. He stimulated Hen- ry V to the war against France (see Shakspeare, ^e»- rg K), which he afterwards bitterly regretted, erecdng All Saints* College, which still stands, as a memorial of his penitence. Chichley was a man of rigor ai^ courage ; he resisted the khig and the pope, when oc- casion demanded, as energetically as he reaiBted what he thought to be the heresy of the fbllowers of Wick- liffe. He died at Canterbury, April 12, 1443.— Dnck, Life ofChicheU (Lond. 1699, 8vo) ; Kippia, Biograpiia Britannica, iii, 499 ; Hook, Eccks. Biog. iii, 575 sq.
Chicken (yooaiov^ pmBns), a word that occurs bat twice in the English Bible (2 Eadr. i, 80 ; Matt, xxiil 37), and only in allusion to " a hen (q. v.) gathering her chickens under her wings." See Fowi^
Chi'don (Heb. Kidon\ ■jn'i^, a dari; SepL Xa- ^cov, but some omit), the name which in 1 Chroo. xiii, 9 is given to the threshing-floor at which the accsdeat to the aik, on its transport fW>m Kiijath-jearim to Je- rusalem, took place, and the death of Usiah ; on this account it was afterwards known as Pbrbs-Uzzab. In the parallel account in 2 Sam. vi, the name is givea as NACHOM.(q. v.), which is nearly equivalent in aenae. Whether there were really two distinct names for the same spot, or whether the one is simply a ccnmptioB or alteration of the other, is quite uncertain (see Gese- nius, Thesanr. p. 688 ; Simonis, Onom. p. 839-40). Jo- sephus iAfU. vii, 4, 2) has " Chidon" (X€^^«v). Sraae have even ventured to identify the spot with the thresb- ing-floor of Oman the Jebusite, on Mount Monah. The Jewish tradition (Jerome, Quast. HA. on 1 Chron. xi, 9) was that Chidon acquired its name fh>m being the spot on which Joshua stood when he stretched oat the weapon of that name (A. V. " spear*') towarda Ai (Josh, vili, 18). But this is iireconcUable with all our ideas of the topography of the locality, which waa evi-
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tafti^Botfkr K.W. of Jenualem, possibly at the pres- ■t ndBf Kkurbei el-Bitttm (Yan de Velde's Mt^).
Chiof Captain. See Chuiabch.
Chief MoaioiaiL See Sfi^Bic.
CUef of Aaia. See Asiabch.
Cldef of Three Cnbbirn ^ik'^yroshhaskshdUshi', rnther D'^^O, skaHskhi\ the third-men), a title of kdino (q. r.) the Eznite, one of David's greatest braves
I Sun. xxiii, 8 ; Sept. wpuroQ rCap rpiiHv ; Vulg. prin- tps mter iSreet; A. Y. ** chief among the captains"), thenrise called JashoSeam (1 Chron. xi, 11, where l» teict. again oorroptlj has ti^^l^ibl^, skalothkn' ,' lept. xpttnroKOC rAy Tptaxovra ; Ynlg.prmcqu inter r^Mte; A.y. "chief of the captains"), and also of OMshii (2 Sam. xxiii, 18, "^m^, rpiiav, de tribut, 'unoDg three"), and Amasa (1 Chron. xii, 18, ra^, TpioKovra, imter triffinia, '* of the captains").
II in these passages it designates the superior officer f commaDder of the trislata, e$sarU, or waipiors who biigfat three In a chariot, and formed the phalanx leirest the king's person (Lydius, SyrUagm, de re mU- ton (lib. ii, c iii, p. 39). He is also briefly called IT?^ hukShaHtk' (lit. the ternary) = cnd-de-eamp, r graoil ezecntlTe officer (2 Kings vii, 2, 17, 19 ; ix, !5;xT,25),like the Boman*' master of horse." See XurrADC »
Chief Pxieat. See Priest.
Chief Ruler. See Stnagoous.
Child (properly 'lij, jfc'fe^ riicvov; but represent- ed by KTeral other Hebrew and Greek words ; comp. Chilorsx). Mothers, in the earliest times, suckled ieir oftpring themselves until they were from thirty Booths to tiuee years of age. The day on which a ihild was weaned was a festival (Gen. xxi, 8; £xod. 1,7,9: 1 Sam. i, 22-24; 2 Chron. xxxi, 16 ; KaU. xxi, IS). Nnises were employed, in case the mother died Miore the child was old enough to be weaned, and vhezt, from any circumstances, she was unable to af- fad a sufficient supply of milk for its nourishment. In Irter ages, when matrons had become more delicate, ttd thoQgfat themselves too infirm to fulfil the duties vhieh nstorslly devolved upon them, nurses were em- ptojed to take their place, and were reckoned among the principal members of the £unily. They are, ac- wdbgly, in consequence of the respectable station which they sustained, frequently mentioned in sacred Urtorj (Gen. xxxv, 8 ; 2 Kings xi, 2 ; 2 Chron. xxii, UX The sons remained till the fifth year in the care of the women ; they then came into the father's hands, lad were taught not only the arts and duties of life, bat were instructed in the Mosaic law, and in all parts of the religion of their country (Deut vi, 20-25 ; xi, 19). Th(ise who wished to have them further instruct- ed either employed private teachers, or sent them to neie priest or Levite, who sometimes had a number of •ther children under his care. It appears fitmi 1 Sam. i, H-36, that there was a school near the holy tabema- de dedicated to the instruction of youth. There had been formeriy many other schools of this kind, which bid fiQen into discredit, but were restored by the (nphet Samuel, after whose time the members of the ■"onsries in question, who were denominated by way of dirtfawtion tike sons qftheprapheti, acquired much ce- lebrity. The daughters rarely departed from the apart- aenti sppropriated to the fiBmales, except when they v^ oat with an urn to dnvw water, or occasionally Jomad in the labors of the field— as keeping sheep, vbich was the practice with those who belonged to thoie hambler stations in life in which the more an- dent dmpUcity of manners was still retained (Gen. «Iv,16;xxix,9; Exod.li,16; lSam.ix,ll; Rutii