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Hierarchic

adjective

Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers. Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchical. "In her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"

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Etymology of 'Hierarchic'

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"Hierarchic" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the desires and industries of some of our own countrymen, lovers of Truth, it was translated and made to speak to thee in thine own dialect and language. But the time of its Nativity being under the late wise and wary Hierarchic who had monopolized and engrossed the discovery of others . . . it walked up and down the city in MSS. at deer rates from hand to hand of some well-wishers to truth, in clandestine and private manner; like Moses in his Arke, or the little {257} Child fled and hid from Herod, never daring to ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... wished to withdraw, it is too late. Andre and I asked for this mission. The authorization that I sought, together with him, has at this moment become an order. The hierarchic channels cleared, the pressure brought to bear at the Ministry;—and then to be afraid, to ...

— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit

Words linked to "Hierarchic" : gradable, graded, hierarchical, ranked, class-conscious, stratified, vertical, nonhierarchical