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单词 hierophant
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hierophantn.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪ(ə)rə(ʊ)fant/, U.S. /ˈhaɪ(ə)rəˌfænt/
Etymology: < late Latin hierophantēs, -phanta, < Greek ἱεροϕάντης, < ἱερός sacred + ϕαίνειν bring to light, make known, reveal. Compare French hiérophante (1535 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
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.
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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).
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