hierophant
noun
(in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
hierophantic
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a word derived from
hierophant.
Example Sentences
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This is hierophantic theater, as old as time, as young as the infancy of man.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most prominent of the impostors his accomplices referred it to Rutilianus's arbitration which of them should be selected to succeed to the prophetic office and wear the hierophantic oracular garland.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
At the end of this bench, near the gallery, I see a majestic bearded figure, strangely coifed and robed all in white, seated upon the matted floor in hierophantic attitude.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
But at the word Of the ancient, sacerdotal Night, Night of the many secrets, whose effect - Transfiguring, hierophantic, dread - Themselves alone may fully apprehend, They tremble and are changed.
From Poems by William Ernest Henley
And as at dusk and dawn the great menhirs of Stonehenge fill with a mysterious, granitic life, seem to be praying priests of stone, so about these gathered hierophantic illusion.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
