Hieratic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or associated with sacred persons or offices; sacerdotal.
  • adj. Constituting or relating to a simplified cursive style of Egyptian hieroglyphics, used in both sacred and secular writings.
  • adj. Extremely formal or stylized, as in a work of art.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. of or pertaining to priests, especially pharaonic priests of ancient Egypt; sacerdotal.
  • adj. of or pertaining to the cursive writing system developed by ancient Egyptian priests alongside the hieroglyphic system.
  • adj. extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to priests or to the priesthood; priestly; sacerdotal.
  • Of sacred or priestly origin; due to or derived from religious use or influence: specifically used of a kind of ancient Egyptian letters or writing, and of certain styles in art.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. associated with the priesthood or priests
  • n. a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
  • adj. written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing
  • adj. adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal
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