hieratical


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Synonyms for hieratical

associated with the priesthood or priests

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For the cases using the hieratical method and more bands, (3,5) and (3,10), the MADs in the SRS curves of the reconstructed pyroshock signals were improved and demonstrated better similarity as the N increased from 5 to 10 subbands.
On the first three panels the auxiliary figures are arranged around the central figure in a composition that can be traced back to late Gandharan models of hieratical groups where a towering Buddha is encircled by smaller figures, many of which are celestial beings celebrating the achievements of the Master.
The Five Cardinal Relations describe the hieratical relationships between father and son, husband and wife, elder brother and younger brother, superior and subordinate, as well as the slightly less hieratical relationship between friends.
The madres played such a prominent role in some of the larger, well-established confraternities that they were elected to offices within a hieratical structure and served according to their station.
(19.) Pilot studies are being implemented to introduce evaluations of public employees by their hieratical superior, including assessment of work quality, professional developments, training needs, future responsibilities and work objectives.
Here, humans are summoned to overcome their petty ways to being and to assume the place of the gods; for Ivanov, this is not the downfall of humankind, it is rather the final stage of its own aggrandizement: "individualism has attained its transcendental heights and is garbed in a hieratical garment of what seems to be a religious absoluteness" (SS, I: 836).
As arch-literary, hieratical, and theatrical as his literary works, the drawings also had a certain ironic remove.
The hieratical tetragram, the ineffable name of the One, means: `I am what is'.
Stylistically, the triptych is one of those enigmatic transitional works in which wholly Gothic formality, elaboration, and hieratical size seem about to give way to a sense of naturalistic space, form, and characterization that can only be called Renaissance.
Figure 2 represents Dumont's notion of hieratical opposition.