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Meanings of hieratical in English

Associated with the priesthood or priests.

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General practice in Ireland is no longer seen as a viable profession.
The Irish Times
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The medical profession should equally be made aware of these new problems.
Pubmed
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The aftermath of the war has created a new, illegal profession: scavenger.
The Cylons’ Secret
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My sense of calling to the social work profession has remained strong.
The Guardian
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Teaching needs to be considered a profession and held in higher regard.
BBC
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But in the main the results were very helpful to priestly morale.
Gather, Darkness!
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But there are rising concerns about the validity of the priestly practice.
News.com.au
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The apparatus of priestly maladministration was restored in all its ancient deformity.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
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I took his underhand air for a priestly air; I did wrong.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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But unlike Tayoga, he had in him none of the priestly quality.
The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
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They were built also by sacerdotal monarchs, in honor of the deity.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations
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Moss told me, It's controversial whether the Egyptians were really that sacerdotal.
Drawing Down the Moon
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While favouring sacerdotal celibacy the council laid rather rigid restrictions on monasticism.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Mr. Slope's ideas of sacerdotal rule are of quite a different class.
Barchester Towers
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Details of the arrangements of the sacerdotal 'courses' need not detain us.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
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Finally, it is a hieratic worship, in the hands of priests.
Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology
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The robe of yellow silk fell about him in hieratic folds.
Julian
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It peered into his face hieratic and unknowable as the night.
Hemlock Grove
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The text is written in the hieratic character and reads:
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
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As an example of the formal hieratic type of portraiture it is very fine.
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the ...
Usage of hieratical in English
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They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
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Hieratical, incapable of seeing earth, he gazed always toward heaven.
Purity of blood
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Hieratical through the time