dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/hie_MW.json
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{
"hie":{
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
],
"definitions":{
": to cause (oneself) to go quickly":[
"hie you to church",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": to go quickly : hasten":[
"thither we advise you to hie",
"\u2014 New Yorker"
]
},
"examples":[
"we had best hie home before the snow gets worse",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Such shows\u2014in major museums in major cities\u2014are perfect for the summer, when much of the art world has hied off to beaches and country houses, but when regular-folk tourists arrive in droves. \u2014 Peter Plagens, WSJ , 8 June 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English h\u012bgian to strive, hasten":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165953",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hierarchize":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to arrange in a hierarchy":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1884, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b-(\u0259-)\u02ccr\u00e4r-\u02cck\u012bz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124448",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hierarchy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a body of persons in authority":[],
": a division of angels":[],
": a graded or ranked series":[
"a hierarchy of values"
],
": church government by a hierarchy":[]
},
"examples":[
"\u2026 he wrote a verse whose metaphors were read somewhere in the Baathist hierarchy as incitement to Kurdish nationalism. \u2014 Geraldine Brooks , Los Angeles Times , 30 Dec. 2001",
"Whereas the monkeys normally hew to strict hierarchies when it comes to who gets the best food and who grooms whom, there are no obvious top or rotten bananas in the sharing of millipede secretions. \u2014 Natalie Angier , New York Times , 5 Dec. 2000",
"The idea that social order has to come from a centralized, rational, bureaucratic hierarchy was very much associated with the industrial age. \u2014 Francis Fukuyama , Atlantic , May 1999",
"The church hierarchy faced resistance to some of their decisions.",
"He was at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy .",
"a rigid hierarchy of social classes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The current aesthetic problems -- pace of play, lack of action, and the rest -- are exacerbated by the game\u2019s hierarchy and its penchant for diving into rules changes. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"The problems of union mergers, which often spilled into public disputes about jurisdiction, became a reflection of Hollywood\u2019s own troubled history of politics, cultural hierarchy and technology. \u2014 Peter Labuza, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Children are usually hyperaware of these nuances of hierarchy and judgment. \u2014 Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Steven Abel and Keith Dienes showed how UV-IR mixing in string theory might address both the hierarchy and cosmological constant problems. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Meanwhile, archetypal Trump Country is inhabited by the descendants of Scots-Irish anti-authoritarians who deplore outsiders, hierarchy , and learned university men. \u2014 Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Racial hierarchy continued to take root in California and beyond when slavery was abolished federally by the 13th Amendment in 1865. \u2014 Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Flipping back to football, several SEC coaches\u2014including Georgia\u2019s Kirby Smart\u2014said Tuesday that NIL has risen up the hierarchy of factors for prospects when considering their recruitment. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 1 June 2022",
"Late on Friday, the leaders of the central branch of the Orthodox church in Ukraine made a formal break with the hierarchy in Moscow. \u2014 Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English ierarchie rank or order of holy beings, from Anglo-French jerarchie , from Medieval Latin hierarchia , from Late Greek, from Greek hierarch\u0113s":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"also \u02c8hi(-\u0259)r-\u02cc\u00e4r-",
"\u02c8h\u012b-(\u0259-)\u02ccr\u00e4r-k\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"graduation",
"ladder",
"ordering",
"ranking",
"scale"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122319",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hierophant":{
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
],
"definitions":{
": advocate sense 2":[],
": expositor":[]
},
"examples":[
"as an early hierophant of birth control, Margaret Sanger had to face down often vehement opposition"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin hierophanta , from Greek hierophant\u0113s , from hieros + phainein to show \u2014 more at fancy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u012b-\u02c8er-\u0259-f\u0259nt",
"\u02c8h\u012b-(\u0259-)r\u0259-\u02ccfant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223228",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"hierarchism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the system or authority of a hierarchy":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccr\u0227\u02cck- also \u02c8h\u012b\u02ccr-",
"\u02c8h\u012b\u0259\u02ccr\u00e4r\u02cckiz\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170538"
},
"hieratic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": constituting or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing simpler than the hieroglyphic":[],
": sacerdotal":[],
": highly stylized or formal":[
"hieratic poses"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b-(\u0259-)\u02c8ra-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ray films musical and dramatic scenes alike with dissonant clashes of elements in unbalanced compositions, sculptural gestures, and hieratic poses. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 3 Nov. 2021",
"At the same time, its static, hieratic text, derived largely from ancient Egyptian and Akkadian sources, lies far outside the operatic norm, and makes most American librettos of recent decades look bland. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"The golden aura of its mosaics; the hieratic posture of religious figures; its spirituality. \u2014 Tiziana Cardini, Vogue , 12 Oct. 2020",
"Dench inhabits her hieratic role with wisdom, grace, nobility, and a sense of moment; Elba invests Macavity with fierce and insinuating power. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2019",
"Napoleon\u2019s stature here is magnified by the hieratic frontality of his pose and the fact that the image fills almost the entire canvas. \u2014 Benjamin Shull, WSJ , 17 Aug. 2018",
"This impact of Owens\u2019s hieratic wife and muse, the golden-toothed, henna-tattooed Michele Lamy, is also omnipresent, not least because her unique cackling laugh, mixed into a show-reel soundtrack, rings through the exhibition. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 22 Dec. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin hieraticus sacerdotal, from Greek hieratikos , from hierasthai to perform priestly functions, from hieros sacred; probably akin to Sanskrit i\u1e63ara vigorous":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1669, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212622"
},
"hierarchical":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy":[
"a hierarchical society",
"a hierarchical order in the church"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"also hir-\u02c8\u00e4r-",
"\u02cch\u012b-(\u0259-)\u02c8r\u00e4r-ki-k\u0259l"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The denomination, which shuns a hierarchical structure and is heavily democratic, passes resolutions every year that often signal the direction thousands of its members want to go. \u2014 Michelle Boorstein And Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022",
"Unlike the Catholic Church, the SBC has a non- hierarchical structure. \u2014 Sarah Pulliam Bailey, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
"The structure in most organizations is hierarchical , which creates a lot of unpredictability for certain people and gives the feeling that things are done to them, as opposed to them having a role in deciding how and when and where to do their work. \u2014 Arianne Cohen, Bloomberg.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Bill does a really good job of collaborating and not creating a hierarchical environment on set. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
"Her order is much smaller and less hierarchical than the sprawling Daughters of St. Paul, a Roman Catholic order that operates in 51 countries and has its own publishing company. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"The relationship of the priest to his community is commonly viewed as hierarchical ; the movement is from the above to the below. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel , 9 May 2022",
"As more organizations transform their organization into a system ranging from hierarchical to a holacracy, leaders must inspire or lead their teams toward organizational outcomes. \u2014 Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"History suggests that his objections lie not just with the title of CEO, but also with the responsibilities and hierarchical decision-making traditionally associated with the role. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"see hierarchy":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1561, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-020801"
},
"hieroglyphic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters":[],
": inscribed with hieroglyphic":[],
": resembling hieroglyphic in difficulty of decipherment":[],
": hieroglyph":[],
": something that resembles a hieroglyph especially in difficulty of decipherment":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b-\u0259-r\u0259-\u02c8gli-fik",
"\u02cch\u012b-(\u0259-)r\u0259-\u02c8gli-fik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Walls were seen decorated with hieroglyphic inscriptions and images of sacred animals and after-life items used by ancient Egyptians. \u2014 Samy Magdy, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Early adopters are using these hieroglyphic identifiers, called Yats, as URLs. \u2014 Rachel Wolfe, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
"No flip-wrist band with hieroglyphic shorthand for who all must make this spring football thing work. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 18 Feb. 2022",
"During the Classic Period, which spanned roughly 250 to 900 C.E., Maya people wrote books on paper with hieroglyphic writing and developed calendars and mathematical and astronomical systems. \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Pieces had broken off, not just from its hieroglyphic text but from the Demotic and Greek texts as well. \u2014 The New Yorker , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Trottinettes\u2014those narrow, elegant scooters\u2014glide among the lanes, their drivers perfectly erect, one foot behind the other, like hieroglyphic Egyptian figures. \u2014 Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Artifacts recovered from the rectangular graves include silver rings, funerary vessels and a seal bearing a hieroglyphic inscription. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Apr. 2021",
"When scholars initially discovered the El Palmar structure, archaeologists had just found a few other hieroglyphic staircases at Maya archaeological sites. \u2014 Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Mar. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The farmers, truckers and others who traverse these rural roads, though, could quickly tell you what the hieroglyphics mean: Help. \u2014 Patricia Cohen, New York Times , 18 Feb. 2020",
"The board lacks the hieroglyphics symbolizing the soul, but square 27\u2014which in earlier boards featured a simple X\u2014now carries a hieroglyphic symbol for water. \u2014 Colin Barras, Science | AAAS , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Earlier game boards boast completely blank playing squares, but in most later versions, the final five squares feature hieroglyphics denoting special playing circumstances. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Early in the meditative travel drama Luxor, a woman crumples in front of a colossal stone wall carved with Egyptian hieroglyphics . \u2014 Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 Feb. 2020",
"Although the game fell out of popularity, the history of senet remains embedded in hieroglyphics and ancient artifacts\u2014and with humanity itself. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Yet even unreadable texts\u2014cuneiforms, hieroglyphics , glyphs\u2014declare (even before they are decoded) the solid existence of the past. \u2014 Helen Vendler, Harper's magazine , 20 Jan. 2020",
"Step 7: Realize there are no written words in the instructions, only drawings that look like indecipherable hieroglyphics . \u2014 Sally Schwartz Higginson, chicagotribune.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
"In 1960, Dows Dunham, a curator at the MFA Boston, translated the hieroglyphics on the coffin and discovered the corpse\u2019s name: Padihershef. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Oct. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French hieroglyphique , from Late Latin hieroglyphicus , from Greek hieroglyphikos , from hieros + glyphein to carve \u2014 more at cleave":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071219"
},
"hierarch":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a religious leader in a position of authority":[],
": a person high in a hierarchy":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b-(\u0259-)\u02ccr\u00e4rk"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the immediate aftermath of communism there was a flurry of revelations about collaboration between Russian hierarchs and the KGB, but soon the files snapped shut. \u2014 The Economist , 11 Aug. 2019",
"That paved the way for Archbishop Ieronymos to join the primate of the new Ukrainian church, Epifaniy, and many other Bartholomew-minded hierarchs at celebrations in Istanbul of the Ecumenical Patriarch\u2019s personal feast-day on June 11th. \u2014 Erasmus, The Economist , 15 June 2019",
"The affair follows a two-year-old drive by Archbishop Charles Thompson, the local hierarch , to make sure that Catholic teaching is observed in all the places under his purview. \u2014 Erasmus, The Economist , 14 July 2019",
"Unfortunately the ability to communicate successfully across other barriers, whether geopolitical or simply personal, is currently eluding the Christians of the East, or at least their hierarchs . \u2014 Erasmus, The Economist , 15 June 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English ierarchis , plural, from Medieval Latin hierarcha , from Greek hierarch\u0113s , from hieros sacred + -arch\u0113s -arch":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074725"
},
"hieratite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mineral K 2 SiF 6 consisting of potassium fluosilicate found as grayish concretions in the fumaroles of Vulcano":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b\u0259r\u0259\u02cct\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from Hiera (Vulcano), one of the Lipari islands, Italy + Italian -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-155214"
},
"hiera picra":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a cathartic powder made of aloes and canella bark":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259r\u0259\u02c8pikr\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin, literally, powerful or sacred antidote":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205407"
},
"Hieroglyphic Hittite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a language related to cuneiform Hittite and known from inscriptions in the Hittite hieroglyphic writing \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001434"
},
"hieroglyph":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a character used in a system of hieroglyphic writing":[],
": something that resembles a hieroglyph":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b-(\u0259-)r\u0259-\u02ccglif"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Somebody told me an interesting thing: that the question mark is basically a hieroglyph . \u2014 David Marchesephoto Illustration By Br\u00e1ulio Amado, New York Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s a hieroglyph of what is supposed to be a young Ganondorf in Breath of the Wild, which shows both long hair and what might be a green tunic. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 19 June 2021",
"Once you're done tracing, Fabricus gives you a percentage score that shows you how confident the machine learning algorithm is that your symbol matches a corresponding hieroglyph in its training data. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 24 July 2020",
"Leopards appear as hieroglyphs and statues in many Egyptian artworks. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2020",
"The 27th square of this particular board shows a hieroglyph for water, where traditionally, the 27th square would typically show an X. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Nesyamun was mummified and entombed in a coffin inscribed with hieroglyphs , mainly texts from the Book of the Dead. \u2014 Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Instead, excerpts were written on the inside of the sarcophagus itself, surviving in the form of two rotting cedar panels etched with images and hieroglyphs . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Jan. 2020",
"A few years ago, after a visit to Teotihuac\u00e1n, the members of the band Iron Maiden got a scholar to translate their song titles into a Mayan language called Yucatec and had the hieroglyphs printed on the tail fin of their 747. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French hi\u00e9roglyphe , from Middle French, back-formation from hieroglyphique":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005406"
},
"hieroglyphist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a writer of hieroglyphics":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4gl\u0259f-",
"h\u012b\u02c8r\u00e4-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010230"
},
"hierodulic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to a hierodule":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259\u00a6d(y)\u00fclik",
"(\u00a6)h\u012b\u00a6er-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-023158"
},
"hieracosphinx":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a hawk-headed sphinx":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u0101k\u0259+\u02cc-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek hierako- (from hierak-, hierax hawk) + English sphinx":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-052639"
},
"hierogram":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a sacred emblem or graphic symbol":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259\u02ccgram"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hier- + -gram":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-054123"
},
"hieracium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a very large and nearly cosmopolitan genus of weedy perennial herbs (family Compositae) having simple often basal leaves and heads of yellow or reddish orange ray flowers \u2014 see orange hawkweed":[],
": any plant of the genus Hieracium":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u0101sh\u0113\u0259m"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek hierakion hawkweed, from hierak-, hierax hawk, from hienai to hurry":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-071830"
},
"Hieracite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a follower of the ascetic Hieracas":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b\u0259r\u0259\u02ccs\u012bt",
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u0101\u02ccs-",
"h\u012b\u02c8er\u0259\u02ccs-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hieracite from Late Latin Hieracita , from Hieracas , 4th century a.d. Egyptian ascetic + Latin -ita -ite; Hieracian from Hieracas + English -ian":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-114949"
},
"hierodule":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a prostitute or enslaved person who is in the service of a temple (as in ancient Greece)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u012b-\u02c8er-\u0259-",
"\u02c8h\u012b-(\u0259-)r\u014d-\u02ccd\u00fcl",
"-\u02ccdy\u00fcl"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin hierodulus , from Greek hierodoulos , from hieron temple + doulos slave":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-125146"
},
"hierocratic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to government by ecclesiastics (as priests or prelates)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259\u00a6kratik"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from hierocracy , after such pairs as English democracy: democratic, democratical":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-140145"
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"hierocracy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": government by ecclesiastics : hierarchy":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-kr\u0259s\u0113"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hier- + -cracy":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-144904"
},
"hiero-":{
"type":[],
"definitions":{
"\u2014 see hier-":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-183935"
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"Hierochloe":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of aromatic perennial grasses native to temperate and cold regions having spikelets with a perfect terminal floret and two staminate florets \u2014 see holy grass":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4kl\u0259(\u02cc)w\u0113"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from hier- + Greek chlo\u0113 young grass":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-192144"
},
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"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": sacred : holy":[
"hier archy",
"hiero glyph"
]
},
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"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin, from Greek, from hieros powerful, supernatural, holy, sacred":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-140525"
},
"hierogrammat":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a writer of sacred records especially in hieroglyphics":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259\u02c8gram\u0259t",
"-\u02ccmat"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek hierogrammateus , from hier- + grammateus scribe, from grammat-, gramma letter, writing":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-162150"
},
"hie on":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to rouse to quick action : urge on":[
"hie on a hound"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-172825"
},
"hierogrammatic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to hierograms":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259gr\u0259\u00a6matik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hier- + Greek grammat-, gramma letter, writing + English -ic, -ical":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-004808"
},
"Hieng":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mountain people of Cambodia":[],
": a member of the Hieng people":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u0113\u02c8e\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-011658"
},
"hiemal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to winter : wintry":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b\u0259m\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin hiemalis , from hiem-, hiems winter + -alis -al":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-014044"
},
"hierograph":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": hierogram":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-r\u0227f",
"\u02c8h\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259\u02ccgraf"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hier- + -graph":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-061011"
},
"hierography":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": descriptive writing on sacred subjects : a treatise on religion":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u012b\u02c8r-",
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4gr\u0259f\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Greek hierographia , from Greek hier- + -graphia -graphy":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-062242"
},
"Hiero I":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"died 467(or 466) b.c. tyrant of Syracuse (478\u2013467 or 466)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccr\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-160630"
},
"hierolatry":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": worship of saints or sacred things":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u00e4l\u0259\u2027tr\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hier- + -latry":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-182439"
},
"hierologic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to hierology":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259\u00a6l\u00e4jik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-210619"
},
"hierology":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a body of knowledge of sacred things : the literary or traditional embodiment of the religious beliefs of a people":[
"the hierology of Greece"
],
": hagiology":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-j\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"hier- + -logy":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214917"
},
"hierologist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one skilled in hierology":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u012b\u02c8r-",
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4l\u0259j\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-223604"
},
"hieromonach":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": hieromonk":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b(\u0259)r\u014d\u02c8m\u00e4n\u0259k",
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4m\u0259\u02ccnak",
"-\u00e4\u02ccnak"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Greek or Middle Greek hieromonachos , from Greek hier- + monachos monk":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-230135"
},
"hieromonk":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a monk of the Eastern Church who is also a priest":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012b(\u0259)r\u014d\u02ccm\u0259\u014bk"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"partial translation of Late Greek or Middle Greek hieromonachos":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-233513"
},
"Hieronymic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or composed by St. Jerome":[
"the Hieronymic version of the Bible"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6h\u012b(\u0259)r\u0259\u00a6nimik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Eusebius Hieronym us (St. Jerome) \u2020420 church father + English -ic or -ian":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-233958"
},
"Hieronymite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of any of various hermit orders named in honor of St. Jerome":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cch\u012b\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4n\u0259\u02ccm\u012bt",
"h\u012b\u02c8r-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Eusebius Hieronym us + English -ite or -ian":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-010715"
}
}