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noun

Hierarch n. One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

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Etymology of 'Hierarch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hierarch" Quotes from Famous Books

... produce on men's pursuit of ordinary bread winning; but he soon emerged from durance and was taken into reverent favour by the Emperor Shomu, who attached four hundred priests as his disciples and conferred on him the titles of Dai-Sojo (Great Hierarch) and Dai-Bosatsu (Great Bodhisattva). ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

... you need of me, Marquess of Montferrat? 'asked the old hierarch in his most remote voice. The Marquess gulped some dignity ...

— The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay • Maurice Hewlett

... suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapory cloud, To rise before me—Rise, O ever rise! Rise like a cloud of incense, from the Earth! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch! tell thou the silent sky, And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

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