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Definition of Hieratical
1. Adjective. Associated with the priesthood or priests. "Hieratic gestures"
Partainyms: Priesthood, Priesthood, Priesthood, Priesthood
Definition of Hieratical
1. Adjective. (alternative form of hieratic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hieratical
Literary usage of Hieratical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1843)
"OBSERVATIONS UPON THE hieratical CANON OF EGYPTIAN KINGS AT TURIN. ... IN laying
before the Society ray copy and analysis of the hieratical Canon of Turin, ..."
2. More Japonico: A Critique of the Effect of an Idea--communityism--on the by James Seguin De Benneville (1908)
"It is probable that Shinto had within it the germ of hieratical rule, ...
The civil element in the State, as distinguished from the hieratical, ..."
3. History of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch (1858)
"... a copy of the hieratical Statistical Tables of Nebuchadnezzar, -which enumerated
all the temples either built or endowed in Babylonia by that monarch. ..."
4. The popular Biblical educator [by J. Blackburn]. by John Blackburn (1854)
"... was not uniformly compact and durable ; that was formerly accounted the bes't
from which the hieratical paper, or that employed by the priests, ..."
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