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hierarchates

hierarchates is the plural of hierarchate.

Meaning of hierarchate

Noun

hierarchate (plural hierarchates)

  1. Synonym of hierarchy.
    • At first, when the demagoguery, the abasement, the small lying had its reverberation in other small lies and ultimate threats in the form of requests and suggestions among the hierarchate of the Church and he received the call to Jefferson, he forgot how he had got it for the time.1932, William Faulkner, chapter 20, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 456
    Synonyms:
    hierarchy

Questions about hierarchates

What is hierarchates the plural of?
Hierarchates is the plural of hierarchate.

Words near hierarchates in the dictionary

  1. hierapicra
  2. hierarch
  3. hierarchal
  4. hierarchally
  5. hierarchate
  6. hierarchates
  7. hierarchial
  8. hierarchic
  9. hierarchical
  10. hierarchical database
  11. hierarchical databases

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