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A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

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A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.

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Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

The hierarchy of dukes and marquises and counts consisted of foreign soldiers imposed on.

The government surveyed rural monasteries and schools, and reconstituted the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

The '"waste hierarchy" shown below places incineration second to last.

It has different customs, currency, hierarchy and a language all its own.

What is the hierarchy in the formulation of different types of environmental plans?

Yet it had elements of federation within the bonds of its hierarchy.

Thus the hierarchy was re-established in England in 1850 by Pius IX., in 1878 by Leo XIII.

An organized hierarchy, a definitive canon of the Holy Scriptures, a confession of faith and rule of faith, and unbending doctrinal discipline, these were the means employed.

In common with all enlightened opinion, he complained bitterly of the excessive multiplication of exemptions, of the exaggerated extension of appeals to Rome, of the luxury of the Roman court, of the venality of the cardinals, and of the injury done to the traditional hierarchy by the very extent of the papal power, which was calculated to turn the strongest head.

But the constitution "Sapienti" of 1908 withdrew from the Propaganda and put under the common law of the Church most of those parts in which the episcopal hierarchy had been re-established, i.e.

The missions begin by establishing apostolic prefectures under the charge of priests; the prefecture is later transformed into an apostolic vicariate, having at its head a bishop; finally, the hierarchy, i.e.

In the Catholic Church bishops take rank at the head of the sacerdotal hierarchy, and have certain spiritual powers peculiar to their office, but opinion has long been divided as to whether they constitute a separate order or form merely a higher degree of the order of priests (ordo sacerdotium).

Dogs are pack animals that are hardwired to respond to a distinct pack hierarchy.

Yet it is obvious that Elle Woods is not an old money, family hierarchy, traditional type of girl, so it is no surprise that this ring never makes it onto her finger.

Company summary, which also might show the management hierarchy.

In the Roman Catholic Church the bishop belongs to the highest order of the hierarchy, and in this respect is the peer even of the pope, who addresses him as "venerable brother."

It is alleged by some that the exercise of the powers gained by the Roman hierarchy was one cause of the Boxer outbreaks.

Subsequently, when the Protestant hierarchy was forcibly established in Sweden, matters were much complicated by the absolutist tendencies of Gustavus.

Early writers on natural history used the term in its vague logical sense without limiting it to a special category in the hierarchy of classification.

The hierarchy of the Church of Rome in Belgium is composed of the archbishop of Malines, and the bishops of Liege, Ghent, Bruges, Tournai and Namur.

Gradually the officials, high and low, subjected to an elaborate system of checks, refused to take any responsibility whatever; and the minutest administrative questions were handed up, through all the stages of the bureaucratic hierarchy, to be shelved and forgotten in the imperial cabinet.

The way in which the ulema are recruited and formed into a hierarchy with a vigorous esprit de corps throws an instructive light on the whole subject before us.

He nominates the Sheikh ul-Islam or mufti (q.v.) of Constantinople (grand mufti), who is his representative in the imamate and issues judgments in points of faith and law from which there is no appeal; but the nomination must fall on one of the mollahs, 2 who form the upper stratum of the hierarchy of ulema.

The hierarchy which centres in the pope constitutes the Church of which the sacramental system is the inner life and penance is the sanction.

Survey of a modeling hierarchy, from relativistic quantum mechanics to fluid dynamics.

The ' hierarchy of optics ' from quantum optics down to paraxial geometrical optics - how does it all fit together?

To deal with inconsistency in the uncertain class hierarchy a default reasoning approach was used.

As a supplement to these labours in the field of Platonic and Alexandrian philosophy, Marsilio next devoted his energies to the translation of Dionysius the Areopagite, whose work on the celestial hierarchy, though recognized as spurious by the Neapolitan humanist, Lorenzo Valla, had supreme attraction for the mystic and uncritical intellect of Ficino.

In various passages in Joachim's writings the clerical hierarchy is represented by Rachel and the contemplative order by her son Joseph, and Rachel is destined to efface herself before her son.

Showing the work at the museum sought to subvert hierarchy 's of representation.

While birth order may have an effect on personality, don't assume that because a child falls at a certain place in the family hierarchy that he will display all - or even any - of the traits associated with his birth order.

Within the field of fashion, there is a hierarchy of designers with some at more affordable range, and select designers that are known for exqiusite craftsmanship and higher price tags.

This leaves them free to cavort in the moonlight and dance among the stars.Fairies and their like also have a place in the mystical hierarchy of Celtic lore.

Archangels rank highest in angel hierarchy, and they're usually depicted as very strong and masculine.

In order to facilitate maximum usability, LoveToKnow Watches is structured with a simple hierarchy based on the most common watch buyer's needs.

Determine a hierarchy within the governmental system they have created - Leaders of Bonanza City had to be determined by the children.

In the original Star Trek, the hierarchy of officers was a key determinant of the big three.

More important than all was the interest of the Roman curia, composed almost exclusively of Italians, to retain in its own hands the choice of the pontiff and to maintain the predominance 01 the Italian element and the Italian spirit in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

At the same time this eternal being is conceived as the all-embracing world-soul from which emanates the hierarchy of individual souls.

More important were the titular changes Napoleon, as we have seen, did not venture to create an order of nobility until 1808, but he at once established an imperial hierarchy.

On the re-establishment of the hierarchy in England Ullathorne became the first Roman Catholic bishop of Birmingham.

The Babylonian king remained a priest to the last, under the control of a powerful hierarchy; the Assyrian king was the autocratic general of an army, at whose side stood in early days a feudal nobility, and from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III.

The Roman Catholic chaplains are classed as parish priests, curates and assistants, and are subject to an army Vicar Apostolic. In war, at an army headquarters there are a "field-rabbi," a "military imam," an evangelical minister, as well as the Roman Catholic hierarchy.

Moreover, the hierarchy derives a vast revenue from the fees for burials in the sacred limits.

The programme of reform thus included not only the extirpation of simony and Nicolaitism, but also the freeing of the Church from the influence of the State, the recovery of her absolute control over all her possessions, the liberty of the Church and of the hierarchy.

The theologians of the Greek and Latin churches expressly found the conception of a Christian priesthood on the hierarchy of the Jewish temple, while the names by which the sacerdotal character is expressed - iEpEbs, sacerdos - originally designated the ministers of sacred things in Greek and Roman heathenism, and then came to be used as translations into Greek and Latin of the Hebrew kohen.

Two points in this theory were laid hold of - the doctrine of priestly mediation and the system of priestly hierarchy.

Church office is a copy of the old hierarchy.

Now among the Jews, as we have seen, the hierarchy proper has for its necessary condition the destruction of the state and the bondage of Israel to a foreign prince, so that spiritual power is the only basis left for a national aristocracy.

While other vassals might hold of a graduated hierarchy of overlords up to the crown, the burgess always held directly of the sovereign.