HIERATIC

hieratic

(adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal; “the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved”

hieratic

(adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing; “hieratic Egyptian script”

priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal

(adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests; “priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments”; “hieratic gestures”

hieratic, hieratic script

(noun) a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

hieratic (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to priests, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.

Synonyms: sacerdotal, priestly

Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.

(art) Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.

Noun

hieratic (plural hieratics)

(historical) 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.

Anagrams

• achirite, charitie, hetairic

Source: Wiktionary

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Hi`er*at"ic, a. Etym: [L. hieraticus, Gr. hiératique.]

Definition: 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.).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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