ruling hierarchy
1hierarchy — n. 1) to rise in the hierarchy 2) an academic; church; corporate; military; ruling hierarchy * * * [ haɪ(ə)rɑːkɪ] church corporate military ruling hierarchy an academic to rise in the hierarchy …
2Hierarchy — • This word has been used to denote the totality of ruling powers in the Church, ever since the time of the Pseudo Dionysius Areopagita (sixth century), who consecrated the expression in his works, The Celestial Hierarchy and The Ecclesiastical… …
3hierarchy — Synonyms and related words: absolute monarchy, aedileship, animal kingdom, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, bishopric, bureaucracy, caste, chain of being, chairmanship, chancellery,… …
4ruling class — Synonyms and related words: aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, barons, bishopric, bureaucracy, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry,… …
5hierarchy — noun (plural chies) Etymology: Middle English ierarchie rank or order of holy beings, from Anglo French jerarchie, from Medieval Latin hierarchia, from Late Greek, from Greek hierarchēs Date: 14th century 1. a division of angels 2. a. a ruling… …
6hierarchy — [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… …
7hierarchy — 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 …
8hierarchy — [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… …
9Spiritual Hierarchy — Part of a series on Theosophy Founders of the T. S. Helena Blavatsky · …
10Catholic Church hierarchy — The term Hierarchy in the Catholic Church has a variety of related usages. Literally, holy government , the term is employed in different instances. There is a Hierarchy of Truths,[1] which refers to the levels of solemnity of the official… …