What's the difference between hieratic and sacerdotal?

Hieratic


Definition:

  • (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.

Sacerdotal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ", Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote argue that the answer is that too many people at the bottom of the pile in the US are black or Hispanic.
  • (2) Or alternatively, as in "Josephine the Singer", music is cited as the essence of a particular kind of religious impulse: one that links the congregation with the sacerdotal through the agency of song.

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