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hiera

  • plural
    of hieron.
    hieron
    noun
    (in ancient Greece) a temple or a sacred place.

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Concoct hiera picra, rhubarb beer, and oil of charity; and sympathize over sprains, whitloes, and broken shins.

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was permitted only to the initiated to look upon these "hiera," as they were called.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright

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.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

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 C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith

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