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British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.

See Gynarchy.

An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.

Government by a woman. Chesterfield.

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.

Presiding over matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.

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.