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adjective

hierarchical, hierarchic adj.

Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy.

Synonyms: hierarchical, hierarchal.

Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation.

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Etymology of 'Hierarchical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hierarchical" Quotes from Famous Books

... IX. did more to help Henry against Louis than Honorius III., the inflexible character and lofty hierarchical ideals of this nephew of Innocent III. made his hand heavier on the English Church than that of his predecessor. Above all, Gregory's expenses in pursuing his quarrel with Frederick II. made the wealth of the English Church a sore temptation to him. With his imposition of a tax of one-tenth ...

— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout

... reason, and bearing of the Tracts, their ethical affinities, their moral standard. The sermons created a moral atmosphere, in which men judged the questions in debate. It was no dry theological correctness and completeness which were sought for. No love of privilege, no formal hierarchical claims, urged on the writers. What they thought in danger, what they aspired to revive and save, was the very life of religion, the truth and substance of all that makes it ...

— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church

... here of the strange guise Buddhism has assumed in the north of India, notably in Tibet. The Lamaism of that country, with its perpetual living incarnation of the divine Buddha in a succession of human representatives, its hierarchical church strongly resembling in many of its features the Church of Rome, and the prayer-flags and wheels for the mechanical discharge of religious acts, have long been the wonder ...

— History of Religion - A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems • Allan Menzies

Words linked to "Hierarchical" : nonhierarchical, vertical, gradable, stratified, hierarchical classification system, class-conscious, hierarchical data structure, hierarchical menu, hierarchical structure, graded, hierarchic, ranked