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Hieratic

adjective

Associated with the priesthood or priests. Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal. "Hieratic gestures"

Written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing.

Adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal.

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"Hieratic" Quotes from Famous Books

... was mainly responsible for breaking down the hieratic tradition which forbade the use of stone for civil purposes. "In Roman architecture the engineering element became paramount. It was this which broke the moulds of tradition and recast construction into modern form, and made it free ...

— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... achievements: it seems too bright, too healthy. Do ye understand this? Health and brightness acting like a shadow? Almost like an objection?{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} To this extent are we already pure fools.{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} Never was there a greater Master in heavy hieratic perfumes—Never on earth has there been such a connoisseur of paltry infinities, of all that thrills, of extravagant excesses, of all the feminism from out the vocabulary of happiness! My friends, do but drink the philtres of this art! Nowhere will ye find a ...

— The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. • Friedrich Nietzsche.

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