hiera
- plural of hieron.
Example Sentences
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Take two scruples each of sacopenium, mugwort, savine, cloves, nutmeg, bay berries; one drachm of galbanum; one scruple each of hiera piera and black hellebore, and make a pessary with turpentine.
The genitives of the Third Personal Pronoun, his, his, hiere, her, hiera, their, are indeclinable.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)
It was permitted only to the initiated to look upon these "hiera," as they were called.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley
So Synesius: 'Odis hiera 'Arraeta gona The after comparison of the process of the natura naturans with that of the geometrician is drawn from the very heart of philosophy.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Concoct hiera picra, rhubarb beer, and oil of charity; and sympathize over sprains, whitloes, and broken shins.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
