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单词 hieratic
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hieraticadj.

/hʌɪəˈratɪk/
Etymology: < Latin hierāticus, < Greek ἱερᾱτικός priestly, sacerdotal, devoted to sacred purposes, < *ἱερᾱτος verbal adjective < ἱεράομαι to be a priest.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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