(a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Example Sentences:
(1) And beyond the physical separation, a further more insidious separation took place, where one group became artists, and the other became non-artists; where the hieratically appointed initiates talked down to the lay people.
(2) The latter are big quasi-octagonal panels that might have been carpentered for some hieratic medieval interior.
(3) The sculpture is flat, linear, hieratic, self-consciously primitive, the baby enclosed protectively in its mother's robes.
Pharaonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Pharaohs, or kings of ancient Egypt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three Pharaonic mummies, preserved for thousand of years, had fiberoptic endoscopy carried out of the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities.
(2) But on Sunday, Adel al-Khayat, who was a member of Gamaa Islamiya , a group whose associates murdered at least 58 tourists in 1997 at a pharaonic temple in Luxor, resigned from the job just days after he was installed.
(3) Over 25 per cent of women subjected to the more severe forms of circumcision, i.e., "Pharaonic," suffer serious physical complications.
(4) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
(5) Most of the adverse health consequences are associated with Pharaonic circumcision.
(6) (A-group, C-group, Pharaonic); and Intensive Agriculturalist, A.D. 0-1400 (Meroitic, X-Group, Christian).
(7) On one night this month in Luxor, which houses the tomb of Tutankhamun among other pharaonic treasures, just 264 foreigners slept in the city's hotels, according to police.
(8) Egypt is turning back into ancient Egypt,” he said, referring to the Pharaonic rule of the land that ended more than two millennia ago.
(9) "It's revolutionary," said Kent Weeks, a leading Egyptologist who has been researching pharaonic sites since the 1960s.
(10) "Egyptologists are always very scathing about Roman mummification, which is not what it had been in the Pharaonic period," said Walker.
(11) His vision of the world he wanted to make, to commemorate himself and his ideology, was complete, overwhelming and Pharaonic.
(12) The Egyptian people have lost their awe of pharaonic rulers.
(13) Many discoveries have been made on the existence of dentistry during the pharaonic time in Egypt.
(14) He hopes the lifesize facsimile will provide as good an experience as the original to divert visitors and ultimately help to preserve it and other pharaonic treasures.
(15) Why not?” Zawyet Dahshur lies on the edge of the Sahara just south of the Memphis ruins – all that remains of one of Pharaonic Egypt’s most important capitals – and across the Nile from Helwan.
(16) It refers back to pharaonic or African habits and doctors do it for their personal financial benefit.” The medical profession is also undergoing gradual change.
(17) Posters portray the Muslim Brotherhood's leader as a sinister black octopus, giving a stubby finger to the Egyptian people, in pharaonic headdress and with a diagonal red stripe slashed across his bearded face.
(18) The discovery of King Senebkay is the first firm evidence of a pharaonic dynasty whose existence archaeologists had suspected but never proved.
(19) Although they did not name diseases as we know them, Pharaonic physicians described a host of gastroenterological symptoms for which an extensive array of therapeutics was prescribed.
(20) Officials hope the £420,000 project will prolong the life of the original while promoting a new model of sustainable tourism and research in a country where many pharaonic sites are under severe threat.