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Hieratic

adjective

Associated with the priesthood or priests. Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal. "Hieratic gestures"

Written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing.

Adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal.

noun

A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests. Synonym: hieratic script.

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... his eyes, and flung them from him. "O Thou Perfectly Awakened!" he prayed, "thy disciple hath not been overcome save through the feebleness of the body; and his vow hath been renewed. Here shall he linger, without food or drink, until the moment of its fulfilment." And having assumed the hieratic posture,—seated himself with his lower limbs folded beneath him, and the palms of his hands upward, the right upon the left, the left resting upon the sole of his ...

— Some Chinese Ghosts • Lafcadio Hearn

... now reached the parting of the ways. The study of Nature is fast superseding the dogmas of the monastic code, and what some writers have characterised as the hieratic is giving way to the naturalistic treatment of art. Like the pointed architecture itself, it is an outcome of the spirit of the age. Exactly when it begins we cannot say. As in the physical sciences, our limits ...

— Illuminated Manuscripts • John W. Bradley

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... by which, after Peter the Great, the old Duchy of Muscovy had been transformed into an empire, still lived in the administration; they survive to-day in the Bolshevist organization, which represents less a revolution than a hieratic and brutal form of violence placed at the service of ...

— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti

... a cloister. All was strong and barren, and only about the varnished staircase was there any sign of comfort. There the ceiling was panelled in oak; and the banisters, the cocoa-nut matting, the bit of stained glass, and the religious prints, suggested a mock air of hieratic dignity. And the room Mr. Hare was shown into continued this impression. Cabinets in carved oak harmonised with high-backed chairs glowing with red Utrecht velvet, and a massive table, on which lay a folio ...

— Celibates • George Moore

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