Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An element in many compounds of Greek origin, meaning ‘sacred, holy, divine.’
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Examples
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Egypt, because of its antiquity and the affinities of the hiero - glyphs to Chinese characters, was identified by some as the center from which the great postdiluvian migra - tion to the East began.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968
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An example of a number system in which collective units are used in regular fashion is the Egyptian hiero - glyphic one, dating from about 3000 B.C.
NUMBER CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA 1968
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The whole, complicated, and hardly known large body of meanings, disguised by the cryptic language of hiero - glyphs, emblems, and iconologies, became one of the main topics of study.
ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968
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Zosimus, hiero-deacon of the hermitage of St. Sergius, and a merchant, Basil, left accounts of their pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Ancient Hindoo, Japanese and Chinese writings, as well as the hiero-glyphics of the extinct races of the North
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After Praise ye the name of the Lord, the Refrain for a hiero-confessor: We magnify thee, O hierarch, father (mentioned by name) ...
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The carving is admirable, every detail – even to the form of the nails and the creases of the finger-joints in part of a hiero -
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Sometimes they met 200 of these canoes at one time, with four or five men in each, bawling out _hiero, hiero, _ meaning iron; and often in their eagerness they run their canoes against the ships, overturning them and losing all their commodities.
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Computer code is a very old source of what could be seen as magic or sorcery, the hiero of the ...
Tech Digest geraldlynch 2010
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Computer code is a very old source of what could be seen as magic or sorcery, the hiero of the ...
Tech Digest geraldlynch 2010
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