hieratic
adjEtymology
From Latin hieraticus, from Ancient Greek ἱερατικός (hieratikós), from ἱερατεία (hierateía, “priesthood”), from ἱερατεύω (hierateúō, “be a priest”), from ἱερεύς (hiereús, “priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”). Use pertaining to the Egyptian writing system originates with the Greek phrase γράμματα ἱερατικά (grámmata hieratiká, literally “priestly writing”), which was first used by Saint Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century AD, as at that time hieratic was used only for religious texts, as had been the case for the previous thousand years.
- derived from ἱερατικός
- borrowed from hieraticus
Definitions
Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests…
Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.
- In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.
Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic…
Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.
- The papyrus was written in hieratic, a cursive form of hieroglyphics.
Extremely stylized, restrained or formal
Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.
- Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.
- When Christ was being crucified, so ran the sea-borne, hieratic legend, the earth had opened all through this country, though the coincidence could hardly have impressed anyone then!
- They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.
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A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic…
A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hieratic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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