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Hierarchical   /hˌaɪrˈɑrkəkəl/   Listen
Hierarchical

adjective
1.
Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers.  Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchic.  "In her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"



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"Hierarchical" Quotes from Famous Books



... other Churches; and that this, the Roman Pontiff's power of jurisdiction, which is truly episcopal, is immediate; towards which (power) all the pastors and faithful, of whatever right and dignity, whether each separately or all collectively, are bound by the duty of hierarchical subordination and true obedience, not only in the things which pertain to faith and morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government (regimen) of the Church diffused through the whole world; so that, unity being preserved ...
— The Purpose of the Papacy • John S. Vaughan

... hairpins, and the price of his child's doll,—one could hardly suppose that freedom of speech would have been tolerated. It did not exist; and the degree to which speech became regulated can be imagined only by those who have studied the spoken tongue. The hierarchical organization of society was faithfully reflected in the conventional organization of language,—in the ordination of pronouns, nouns, and verbs,—in the grades conferred upon adjectives by prefixes or ...
— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn

... Greeks themselves had to face the problem of larger and more complex buildings, in the service of a supernatural and hierarchical system, they transformed their architecture into what we call Byzantine, and St. Sophia took the place of the Parthenon. Here a vast vault was introduced, the colonnade disappeared, the architrave was rounded into an arch from column to column, the capitals of these were changed from ...
— The Sense of Beauty - Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory • George Santayana

... conducted many wars with the neighboring nations in a most successful manner; and while he refused to take any portion of the booty to his own palace, he did not cease to enrich the citizens. He also cherished the greatest respect for that institution of hierarchical and ecclesiastical ordinances which we still retain to the great benefit of the Commonwealth; for in the very commencement of his government he founded the city with religious rites, and in the institution of all public establishments ...
— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero



Words linked to "Hierarchical" :   hierarchical structure, hierarchical menu, vertical, ranked, gradable, class-conscious, nonhierarchical, graded, stratified, hierarchy



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