(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.