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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.

noun

A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests. Synonym: hieratic script.

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... 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 once more" ...

— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... Spanish influences in the language, alphabet and ideas of the conquerors, and who, as is proved by an examination of the contents of the books themselves, drew from European sources a great part of their material. Moreover, the Maya tablets were so far hieratic as to be understood only by the priests and those who had received a special training in this direction, and they seem therefore to have been entirely unintelligible ...

— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... matrons, especially, seem to favour that ideal of the Hottentot Venus which you may study in the Jardin des Plantes; they are decidedly centripetal. Of the girls and boys one notices only those who possess a peculiar trait: the eyebrows pencilled in a dead straight line, which gives them an almost hieratic aspect. I cannot guess from what race is derived this marked feature which fades away with age as the brows wax thicker and irregular in contour. We may call it Hellenic on the old-fashioned principle that everything attractive comes from the Greeks, while its opposite is ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... admitted that all the literature of Babylonia, including the oldest and even that written in the "ideographic" style, whether we term it "Sumero-Akkadian" or "hieratic," is the work of the Semitic ...

— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow

... to be seen on the Chaldean cylinders. Can we then connect them in any way with the relics of Troy, and is it possible that the Trojans and Chaldeans were of common origin? However that may be, the constant repetition of these signs proves that they were of hieratic character. Terra-cotta was also used for a very great number of other purposes, as was the case everywhere before the introduction of metals. Some deep and some flat plates made of very common clay have been found, together with buttons, funnels, ...

— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

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