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Hieratic

adjective
1.
Associated with the priesthood or priests.  Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal.  "Hieratic gestures"
2.
Written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing.
3.
Adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal.





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"Hieratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... lowered music to the position of a lascivious handmaiden? To the sound of cymbals, it postured for the weary debauchee. No; music must go back to its origins. The church fettered it in its service, knowing full well its good and evil. Before Christianity was, it had been a power in hieratic hands. Ancient Egyptian priests hypnotized the multitudes with a single silvery sound; and in the deepest Indian jungles inspired fakirs induced visions by the clapping of shells. Who knows how ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... and used not only in Babylonia and Assyria, but also as early as 1500 B. C. in Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia, Palestine and even by special scribes in Egypt. He should also be able to read the various Egyptian scripts—the 400 hieroglyphics of the monuments, the hieratic, or running hand of the papyri, and the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various


Words linked to "Hieratic" :   hieratic script, hieroglyphic, beaux arts, nonrepresentational, priesthood, fine arts, demotic, Demotic script, hieroglyph


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