hierarchy

  • 61hierarchy — 1. Any system of persons or things ranked one above the other. 2. In psychology and psychiatry, an organization of habits or concepts in which simpler components are combined to form increasingly complex integrations. [G. hierarchia, rule or… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 62HIERARCHY —    Many studies of state formation assume a simple hierarchical or pyramidal structure to power. Etruscan settlement analysis appears to point to a highly centralized hierarchical structure, where one city dominated its political territory.… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans

  • 63hierarchy —   organisation by class of importance, status or authority. Usually a negative correlation between class and number of members i.e. the higher the class the lower the number of members of that class …

    Geography glossary

  • 64hierarchy — [14] Greek hierós meant ‘sacred, holy’. Combined with arkhēs ‘ruling’ (as in English archbishop) it produced hierárkhēs ‘chief priest’. A derivative of this, hierarkhíā, passed via medieval Latin hierarchia and Old French ierarchie into Middle… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 65HIERARCHY —    an organized body of PRIESTS or CLERGY with specialized offices and a recognized AUTHORITY structure …

    Concise dictionary of Religion

  • 66hierarchy — government by a ranked body; government by priests Forms of Government …

    Phrontistery dictionary

  • 67hierarchy — hi·er·arch·y || haɪərÉ‘rkɪ / rɑːk n. system in which persons or things are arranged one above the other according to rank; group which governs; group of church officials ranked successively …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 68hierarchy — n. 1. Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical establishment. 2. Body of ecclesiastical dignitaries. 3. Scale of succession in ecclesiastical rank, system of sacred gradation. 4. System of gradation (generally), order or succession of dignities …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 69hierarchy —   Representation of relationships where mutually exclusive lower groups are successively included in more inclusive groups.   See also systematics …

    Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

  • 70hierarchy — n 1. system of layers or levels or strata, ranking, Inf. pecking or peck order; caste system, homogeneous grouping; separation, segregation, apartheid; Fig. ladder, Fig. totem pole. 2. ecclesiastical government, hierocracy, theocracy, episcopacy …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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