英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˌhaɪ(ə)ˈɹætɪk/

形容詞

hieratic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.

   Synonyms: sacerdotal, priestly

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:

     In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 223:

     The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions.

2. Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.
   • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 117:

     The papyrus was written in hieratic, a cursive form of hieroglyphics.

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

   Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.

   • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 1, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:

     When Christ was being crucified, so ran the sea-borne, hieratic legend, the earth had opened all through this country, though the coincidence could hardly have impressed anyone then!

   • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 37:

     They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.

派生語

名詞

hieratic (plural hieratics)

1. (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.

派生語

• Abnormal Hieratic

Further reading

• hieratic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• achirite, charitie, hetairic