单词 | hieratic |
释义 | hieraticadj. 1. Pertaining to or used by the priestly class; used in connection with sacred subjects. spec. a. Applied to a style of ancient Egyptian writing (called ἱερατικά by Clement of Alexandria, c a.d. 200), which consisted of abridged forms of hieroglyphics. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > of specific languages > Egyptian epistolographic1669 hieratic1669 epistolic1670 demotic1822 enchorial1822 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. xi. 64 Hieratic [letters], used by those who write of Sacreds. 1771 W. Jones Zoologia Ethica 69 The next in order was the hieratic, or the writing used by the religious scribes and priests. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §216 The hieratic character..seems to have arisen in the transference of hieroglyphics, particularly the phonetic portion of them, to papyrus, by the abbreviation and simplification of signs. 1850 W. E. Gladstone Homer II. ii. 165 Some other country having, like Egypt, an hieratic and also a demotic tongue. 1862 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies I. iv. 81 This mode of writing..has been called without much reason ‘the hieratic’. 1883 A. H. Sayce Fresh Light from Anc. Monuments 86 It was from the hieratic forms of the Egyptian letters that the Phoenician letters were derived. 1886 J. R. Lowell Orat. Harvard 8 Nov. in Wks. (1890) VI. 147 The teaching..of Hebrew, as the hieratic language. b. hieratic paper n. = hieratica n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > papyrus > [noun] > type of hieratic paper1656 hieratica1832 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Hieratical, sacred, holy, destined to things sacred. As Hieratick Paper, fine Paper, Dedicated onely to Religious Books. 1855 Househ. Words 12 67 The old hieratic paper soon lost its prestige. c. Applied to a style of art (esp. Egyptian or Greek), in which earlier types or methods, fixed by religious tradition, are conventionally adhered to. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > ancient, primitive, or pre-Renaissance > [adjective] > hieratic hieratical1656 hieratic1841 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 176 Art in all its stages, from the rudest of the archaic or hieratic paintings to the finest design and finish of the Macedonian times. 1846 C. Maitland Church in Catacombs 240 The intaglios of Kamai, almost the best hieratic work in existence. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxii. 710 Sculptured in what is called the hieratic attitude; that is, with the left arm down and pressed close to the body. d. Appropriate to sacred persons or duties. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] rulerc1390 reverent1398 ruly?c1450 ecclesiasticala1538 ministerial1561 clerical1592 ecclesiastic1603 cleric1623 reverend1625 clergical1632 clergya1635 hieratical1656 churchmanlike1786 shovel-hatted1832 churchmanly1833 hieratic1866 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 14 It speaks..with hieratic grandeur. 1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean I. 32 A sort of hieratic beauty and orderliness in the conduct of life. 1893 Nation 9 Feb. 101/3 They have a sort of hieratic calm and peace. 2. gen. Priestly, sacerdotal. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [adjective] sacerdotalc1400 priestialc1449 priestly1465 priestlike1488 priesterly1535 priestish1544 priestly1563 sacerdotical1641 hierographic1659 priestal1839 hieratic1859 Presbyterian1881 1859 S. Sharpe Hist. Egypt (ed. 4) II. xvi. §6. 199 Learned in the ten books, called hieratic, relating to the laws, the gods, the management of the temples, and the revenue. 1871 J. Morley Some Greek Conception in Crit. Misc. 343 (note) The essentially hieratic monarchies. 1885 W. H. Payne tr. G. Compayre Hist. Pedagogy 15 It [education in the East] was administered by the hieratic class. 1893 in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 663 The Law and the Prophets..constituted..the hieratic Hebrew books. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1656 |
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