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Meanings of hieratic in anglès
Associated with the priesthood or priests.
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Usage of hieratic in anglès
1
Finally, it is a hieratic worship, in the hands of priests.
2
The robe of yellow silk fell about him in hieratic folds.
3
It peered into his face hieratic and unknowable as the night.
4
The text is written in the hieratic character and reads:
5
As an example of the formal hieratic type of portraiture it is very fine.
6
His attitude moreover has not the rigid hieratic aspect of the other Theban statues.
7
Mr. S. now rose, an impressive hieratic figure, commanding attention and imploring perfect silence.
8
The sole observance of hieratic symbol were the horns of Athor set in the hair.
9
He had taught them from the simplest hieratic catechism to the initiation into the mysteries.
10
This whole scroll is written in hieratic, I think.
11
It fuses the naturalism of the Amarna period with the hieratic formalism of Egyptian tradition.
12
The Egyptians also wrote from right to left in the hieratic and demotic and enchorial styles.
13
It consists of eighteen pieces in Egyptian hieratic writing, ascribed to about the year B. C.
14
The hieratic face of the old bishop lights up, becomes strangely living, almost modern, in expression.
15
Some ideal, hieratic persons he would always need to occupy it and keep a warmth there.
16
They give the original hieratic text, with translation into Egyptian hieroglyphics, into Latin and into German.
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Hieratic through the time