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Hierarchal
- adjective - classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"
Hierarches
- noun - a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
Hierarchic
- adjective - classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"
Hieratical
- adjective - associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures"
Hierocracy
- noun - a ruling body composed of clergy
Hieroglyph
- noun - a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
- writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
Hierolatry
- noun - the worship of saints
Hieromancy
- - Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
Hieronymus
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)
Hierophant
- - The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of a religion or an arcane discipline; an expositor; as, In his television series Carl Sagan became the foremost hierophant of modern cosmology..