hierarchal
adjEtymology From hierarchy + -al.
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Usually Synonym of hierarchical (“pertaining to a hierarchy (ranking)”).
hierarchal
adj/haɪəˈɹɑː(ɹ)kəl/
Etymology From hierarch + -al.
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Relating to a hierarch.
- The bishop discharged his hierarchal duties by arbitrating the dispute.
- the great hierarchal standard1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: