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Meanings of hieratic in English
Associated with the priesthood or priests.
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Examples for "profession"
Examples for "profession"
1
General practice in Ireland is no longer seen as a viable profession.
2
The medical profession should equally be made aware of these new problems.
3
The aftermath of the war has created a new, illegal profession: scavenger.
4
My sense of calling to the social work profession has remained strong.
5
Teaching needs to be considered a profession and held in higher regard.
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But in the main the results were very helpful to priestly morale.
2
But there are rising concerns about the validity of the priestly practice.
3
The apparatus of priestly maladministration was restored in all its ancient deformity.
4
I took his underhand air for a priestly air; I did wrong.
5
But unlike Tayoga, he had in him none of the priestly quality.
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They were built also by sacerdotal monarchs, in honor of the deity.
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Moss told me, It's controversial whether the Egyptians were really that sacerdotal.
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While favouring sacerdotal celibacy the council laid rather rigid restrictions on monasticism.
4
Mr. Slope's ideas of sacerdotal rule are of quite a different class.
5
Details of the arrangements of the sacerdotal 'courses' need not detain us.
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They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law.
2
Hieratical, incapable of seeing earth, he gazed always toward heaven.
Usage of hieratic in English
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:
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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.
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Mr. S. now rose, an impressive hieratic figure, commanding attention and imploring perfect silence.
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The sole observance of hieratic symbol were the horns of Athor set in the hair.
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He had taught them from the simplest hieratic catechism to the initiation into the mysteries.
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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.
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They give the original hieratic text, with translation into Egyptian hieroglyphics, into Latin and into German.
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