Part 5286

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Hierapicra</h1> <Xpage=692>

<hw>Hi"e*ra*pi"cra</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ sacred + <?/ bitter.]</ety> <fld>(med.)</fld> <def>A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<h1>Hierarch</h1> <Xpage=692>

<hw>Hi"er*arch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>hierarcha</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/ sacred (akin to Skr. <ets>ishiras</ets> vigorous, fresh, blooming) + <?/ leader, ruler, fr. <?/ to lead, rule: cf. F. <ets>hi\'82rarque</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; <as>as, princely <ex>hierarchs</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Hierarchal, Hierarchic</h1> <Xpage=692>

<hw><hw>Hi"er*arch`al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hi`er*arch"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to a hierarch.</def> "The great <i>hierarchal</i> standard."

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Hierarchical</h1> <Xpage=692>

<hw>Hi`er*arch"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>hi\'82rarchique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to a hierarchy.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms> <-- MW10 = "of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy" -->

<-- 2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy. -->

<h1>Hierarchism</h1> <Xpage=692>

<hw>Hi"er*arch`ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The principles or authority of a hierarchy.</def>

<blockquote>The more dominant <b>hierarchism</b> of the West. <i>Milman.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hierarchy</h1> <Xpage=692>

<hw>Hi"er*arch`y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Hierarchies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Gr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>hi\'82rarchie</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Dominion or authority in sacred things.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.</def>

<i>Shipley.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A rank or order of holy beings.</def>

<blockquote>Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of <b>hierarchies</b>, of orders, and degrees. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<-- 5. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a "hierarchical relation" -->

<h1>Hieratic</h1> <Xpage=692>

<hw>Hi`er*at"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>hieraticus</ets>, Gr. <?/; akin to <?/ sacred: cf. F. <ets>hi\'82ratique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.</def>

<cs><col>Hieratic character</col>, <cd>a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the <i>demotic<i> was supposed to be that of the people.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason called hieroglyphic and <b>hieratic</b> -- were employed only for sacred, while the third, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No such distinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments; bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. <i>W. H. Ward (Johnson's Cyc.).</i></blockquote>