Anti hierarchy
any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
government by ecclesiastical rulers.
the power or dominion of a hierarch.
an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in successive ranks or orders:
the roman catholic hierarchy.
one of the three divisions of the angels, each made up of three orders, conceived as const-tuting a graded body.
also called celestial hierarchy. the collective body of angels.
government by an elite group.
linguistics. the system of levels according to which a language is organized, as phonemic, morphemic, syntactic, or semantic.
noun (pl) -chies
a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order
a body of persons in holy orders organized into graded ranks
the collective body of those so organized
a series of ordered groupings within a system, such as the arrangement of plants and animals into cl-sses, orders, families, etc
(linguistics, maths) a formal structure, usually represented by a diagram of connected nodes, with a single uppermost element compare ordering, heterarchy, tree (sense 6)
government by an organized priesthood
n.
mid-14c., from old french ierarchie, from medieval latin hierarchia “ranked division of angels” (in the system of dionysius the areopagite), from greek hierarkhia “rule of a high priest,” from hierarkhes “high priest, leader of sacred rites,” from ta hiera “the sacred rites” (neuter plural of hieros “sacred;” see ire) + arkhein “to lead, rule” (see archon). sense of “ranked organization of persons or things” first recorded 1610s, initially of clergy, sense probably influenced by higher. related: hierarchal; hierarchical.
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