hieratic Egyptian script.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.    From Dictionary.com. 

It is known as the hieratic script; and the material invented for the use of the scribe was papyrus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference

And very many of the Egyptian books are written in this kind of broken-down hieroglyphic, which is called "hieratic," or priestly writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt] Reference

Her hieratic and most general form was still lioness-headed, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

It was invariably written, like the hieratic, from right to left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

It came to Lynley that this was a hieratic ritual he was watching.    From Wordnik.com.  [With No One as Witness]

Sleeping, he had the hieratic calm of a figure already carved on a tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Excellent Mystery]

Hence its hieratic quality, its majestic simplicity and calmness of movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'] Reference

It was a stylized head of a leopard, holding the hieratic letter T in its jaws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

The sole observance of hieratic symbol were the horns of Athor set in the hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Papalist legacy of the hieratic model of authority, operating through delegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [AUTHORITY] Reference

Sitting down, she assumed that close-kneed hieratic attitude habitual to her, which made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

He drew the symbols of the hieratic with great care - he had always excelled at penmanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

He had taught them from the simplest hieratic catechism to the initiation into the mysteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Both are huge, but one of them is monumental and hieratic, and the other is achingly poignant.    From Wordnik.com.  [At MoMA, A Look At A Pivotal Moment For Matisse] Reference

The characters used by the Egyptians were of three kinds -- hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Medieval society's hieratic military, political, and other orders defy historical generalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [WAR AND MILITARISM] Reference

State Department foreign diplomacy for the most part continues to be formal and hieratic in style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Taking the Me From Social Media] Reference

You read hieroglyphics quite well, but not as well as I do, and you don't know the hieratic script.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Scroll]

Feel a craving for a hieratic papyrus to read by the fireside or a hieroglyphic thriller for the beach?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookstores & Shops] Reference

I was not, of course, qualified to work on the original scrolls, which were written in the hieratic script.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Below the pictured hieroglyphics in the first line is the same text in a simpler writing known as hieratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

At his day pagan hieratic and hieroglyphic symbols only were written on papyrus, or carved and engraved on stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference

Nevertheless all this hieratic importance has not made them gods in the deeper sense, reigning in the hearts of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India] Reference

The painted mask that turned her from Glory McArdle, ordinary person, into the hieratic Vixen, scourge of evildoers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warslayer]

A shiver went through him as he identified a vai, that letter of the hieratic alphabet which was never used in writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic May Return]

In the second instance, the use of hieratic English would likewise align to our greater tradition of liturgical language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cardinal DiNardo, the Book of Divine Worship, and Thoughts on Hieratic English in the Liturgy] Reference

Andrew's interests are literary, artistic, political and generally interested in the hieratic aspects of Western culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rare Diversions: A Blog Rooted in the Classical Liberal Arts and Two Other Blogs of Note] Reference

From a hieratic, hermetic art object the novel is blooming into something more casual and open: a literature of pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Books Don't Have to Be Hard] Reference

The carved signet leaped out at him, the stylized head of the leopard with the hieratic letter T held in its snarling jaws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

When Proietto returns to dance with them, his wary, hieratic stance is an instant evocation of Nijinsky as the faun himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell Maliphant Company] Reference

Nevertheless Rome was mainly responsible for breaking down the hieratic tradition which forbade the use of stone for civil purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

He could have added that if Anstey had destined his cat for this hieratic role, then he had been unlucky in his choice of the litter.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference

In the second place, the artists replaced the old hieratic idols by more attractive images and gave them the beauty of the immortals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

The hieratic writing was generally used for manuscripts, and is also found on the cases of mummies, and on isolated stones and tablets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

For example, the name of the hieratic glyph for house changed from Egyptian pr to Canaanite bayt, and thus the glyph came to stand for/b/.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh] Reference

This archaic style, like the strictly hieratic style in sculpture, was retained together with a freer treatment at a more advanced period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

He displayed the linen-wrapped roll, the covering split where Snofru had opened it, but the wavering hieratic characters of the address in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

In the hieratic system, of which Schamyl is the head, the divisions seem to correspond pretty nearly with this arrangement, as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference