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in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun. [Rare, except in poetry] "My husband hies him home." Shak. The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden.

Winter. Shak.

A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison.

One who has high 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 rank or order of holy beings. Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. Milton.

Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests. Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. It was a false notion of the…

Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. Jefferson.

priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol…

Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk. Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. Prof. Wilson.

In hieroglyphics.

One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.

A form of sacred or hieratic writing.

Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing. Bp. Warburton.

A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

Of or pertaining to sacred writing.

Sacred writing. [R.] Bailey.

The worship of saints or sacred things. [R.] Coleridge.