hierarchically

Adverb

hierarchically (comparative more hierarchically, superlative most hierarchically)

1. Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy.
   • Unlike, say, botany or zoology, or even in a thesaural structure of a knowledge database, where the syntactical and semantic relationships between concepts is often highly ordered (e.g. hierarchically, cohyponymically), the central concepts and meanings in the field of management are more...1987 May 1, Stuart Hannabuss, “Collaborating over Meanings in Management: Drucker Looks at Effectiveness”, in Personnel Review, volume 16, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 34
2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.