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▪ I. † gerarchie Her. Obs.
[? a use of gerarchie hierarchy, in allusion to the nine orders of the three hierarchies of angels.]
(See quot.; substituted by Ferne for gereri.)
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 206 The Armes called Quadrates, were nine in number..The first of the Quadrates finall, was called Gerearrie, or rather gerarchie: and that was when the feeld was deuided, into nine diuers quarters, or partes, meeting in the Fesse point of the Shielde.
▪ II. gerarchie, -y(e
obs. forms of hierarchy. |