hieratic
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1. hieratic - Noun
2. hieratic - Adjective
3. hieratic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
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the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved
hieratic Egyptian script
priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments
hieratic gestures
Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and demotic equivalents.
In an anonymous review of the lettre Young attributed the discovery of the hieratic as a form of hieroglyphs to de Sacy and described Champollion's decipherments merely as an extension of Åkerblad and Young's work.