单词 | hierophant |
释义 | hierophantn. 1. Historical. An official expounder of sacred mysteries or religious ceremonies, esp. in ancient Greece; an initiating or presiding priest. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] bishopc893 prelate?c1225 prince of priests?c1225 high priestc1400 pontificala1450 emperor clerkc1475 gentleman untrial1486 dignitya1525 Aaron1565 hierarch1574 presul1577 monsignor1579 church governor1588 pontiff1589 archbishop1600 monseigneur1601 monsignor1611 sheikh1613 protomist1619 Mar1622 hyperochality1637 protarch1654 pontifex1655 prelatical1658 dignitary1672 hierophanta1676 Monsig.1698 ecclesiarch1781 arch-pontiff1790 Mgr1848 Msgr.1868 patriarch- society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Greek Corybantc1374 hierophanta1676 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > a mystery > [noun] > initiation into > instructor > in ancient Greece hierophanta1676 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. xii. 244 The Crafts of their Heathenish Priests and Hierophants. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 334 Eminent at Athens, as hierophant in the Eleusinian mysteries. 1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xl. 179 The chief priest, hierophant, or mystagogue, was taken from the Eumolpidæ. 1882 J. G. Whittier Questions of Life 5 I listen to the sibyl's chant, The voice of priest and hierophant. 2. gen. An expounder of sacred mysteries; the minister of any ‘revelation’; the interpreter of any esoteric principle. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > a mystery > [noun] > initiation into > instructor mystagoguec1540 mysteriarch1656 myst1693 exegete1736 hierophanta1822 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] > one who comments or annotates > in religious context Targumist1642 hierophanta1822 hermeneut1857 meturgeman1865 a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Prose Wks. (1888) II. 38 Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration. 1843 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life I. x. 147 The hierophant and interpreter of the godlike in the soul. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 6 A doubt as to whether ‘able editors’ were, after all, the great, divinely accredited hierophants of the species. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1676 |
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