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A sacred government; by holy orders of men. Southey.

Same as Heptarchist.

Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy. T. Warton.

A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. [Written also heptarch.]

A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.

A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A chief or great heresy. [R.] The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchies against our blessed Savior. Sir T. Herbert.

The government of an alien. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. Milton.

Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard." Milton.

Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.

The principles or authority of a hierarchy. The more dominant hierarchism of the West. Milman.

A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley.

Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif. (Zoögeography),

Presiding over matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Unfading; lasting. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Unfadingly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach. P. Miler.

A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.