hierarchical
adjective
of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
hierarchic
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a variation of
hierarchical.
Example Sentences
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What these two lengthy descriptions illustrate is a fundamental transformation in the vertical structure, a reversal of the hierarchic order.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2014
Discount the fact that Sale does not mention evidence of the Tainos' hierarchic social structure, which included, at the bottom level, slaves.
From Time Magazine Archive
By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness of her untroubled expression or the richly brocaded gowns and hierarchic formality of the aristocratic spectators.
From Time Magazine Archive
In matters of discipline, the council fathers could modify the church's laws on clerical celibacy, hierarchic pomp, fish on Friday, priestly dress, the use of Latin in the Mass, and the Index of Forbidden Books.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others there are who, in the semi-revolutionary vein of Comte, incline towards a socialist Collectivism in a rather utopian, not to say hierarchic, form.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
