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Definition of Hieratically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hieratically
Literary usage of Hieratically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century by Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1911)
"... freedom of artistic invention and shaping in contrast to hieratically fixed
formulas ; finally, freedom of faith in contrast to religious intolerance. ..."
2. Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld (1920)
"The music was to call the soul through the gate of the sense of hearing, to lead
it, slowly, hieratically, up through circle after circle of heaven, ..."
3. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1907)
"His women are slender beings, isolated like idols, and standing motionless in
poses hieratically august; aesthetic souls, who swoon and grow pale under the ..."
4. Giotto and Some of His Followers by Osvald Sirén (1917)
"The big panels consist of hieratically arranged saints on both sides of an
enthroned Madonna. Their artistic value must be sought chiefly in the decorative ..."
5. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"The church plan remained as inviolate and as hieratically sacrosanct as the very
ritual of the Mass celebrated in the church. Apart from the conservative ..."
6. Hellenistic Pottery and Terracottas by Homer A. Thompson, Dorothy Burr Thompson (1987)
"Late and odd as this may be, the Athenian votary still stands unchanged before
us, clasping a tiny fawn to her breast as piously and as hieratically as did ..."
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