hi·er·at·ic /ˌhaɪ(ə)ˈrætɪk/
(a.)僧侶的,僧侶用的
Hi·er·at·ic a. Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people.
It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason called hieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while the third, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No such distinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments; bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. --W. H. Ward (Johnson's Cyc.).
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hieratic
adj 1: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or
sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly,
hieratical, sacerdotal]
2: written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian
writing; "hieratic Egyptian script"
3: adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and
formal; "the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer
curiously unmoved"
n : a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by
the priests [syn: hieratic script]