Crossword-Solution: HIERATIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hieratic | a. | Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “HIERATIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANCIENT priests of writing | 1 answer |
| Of ancient writing | 1 answer |
| PRIESTS of ancient writing | 1 answer |
| hiereus | 1 answer |
| of priests | 1 answer |
| priestal | 1 answer |
| priestish | 1 answer |
| sacerdotal | 3 answers |
| hierographic | 5 answers |
| scriptural | 6 answers |
| evangelistic | 10 answers |
| Priestly | 12 answers |
| APOSTOLIC | 14 answers |
| evangelical | 17 answers |
| gospel | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HIERATIC (5)
She took the leg of mutton and held it high above her, as though it were the head of John the Baptist on a platter; and, the cigarette still in her mouth, advanced with solemn, hieratic steps.
The Zu-Vendi alphabet seems, Sir Henry says, to be derived, like every other known system of letters, from a Phœnician source, and therefore more remotely still from the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
During the contact of that unexpected and lingering kiss Mr Verloc, gripping with both hands the edges of his chair, preserved a hieratic immobility.
Apparently Rose had muddled them all up; and it was a long time before the figure was finished and sent to the Pavilion in a long basket to take on itself the robes and the hieratic pose of the Empress.
But for that very cause, the Scriptures were not left inaccessible to the mass of mankind, like the old Pehlevi liturgies of the Zend-avesta, or the old Sanscrit Vedas, in an obsolete and hieratic tongue, but were translated into, and continued in, the then all but world-wide Hellenic speech, which was to the ancient world what French is to the modern.
Quotes with HIERATIC (1)
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1973–2002).