Thesaurus: hieratic

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1. a. Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
2. adj. associated with the priesthood or priests
3. adj. written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing
4. adj. adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal
5. n. a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
6. 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.).
7. Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modifiedform of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerlysupposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposedto be that of the people.It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds ofwriting used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason calledhieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while thethird, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No suchdistinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments;bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. W. H. Ward(Johnson's Cyc.).
8. j:100 n. a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests a. written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing s. adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal