hierarchic
- 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
Perhaps this is because Congress is not so hierarchic in organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Particularized, rather than idealized, they represent a triumphant manipulation of space, in gilded robes and meticulously formed figures, transcending the stiff, hierarchic form of the early Gothic style.
From Time Magazine Archive
What a decidedly antipapal character did the Church, which retained most of the hierarchic usages, nevertheless assume!
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von
