HIERARCHIES
Noun
hierarchies
plural of hierarchy
Anagrams
• hierarchise
Source: Wiktionary
HIERARCHY
Hi"er*arch`y, n.; pl. Hierarchies. Etym: [Gr. hiérarchie.]
1. Dominion or authority in sacred things.
2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each
subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs,
metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by
priests. Shipley.
4. A rank or order of holy beings.
Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies,
of orders, and degrees. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition