Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HIE, v.i. [Sax. higan, higian, to hasten, to urge forward, to press, to endeavor; also, hiegan and higgan, to be urgent, to strive.]

1. To hasten; to move or run with haste; to go in haste; a word chiefly used in poetry. The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden.
2. With the reciprocal pronoun; as, hie thee home.

HI'E-RARCH, n. [Gr. ιερος, sacred, and αρχος, a ruler or prince.]

The chief of a sacred order; particularly, the chief of an order of angels. Milton.

HI-E-RARCH'AL, a.

Belonging to a hierarch. Milton.

HI-E-RARCH'IC-AL, a.

Belonging to a sacred order, or to ecclesiastical government.

HI'E-RARCH-Y, n.

1. An order or rank of angels or celestial beings; or a subordination of holy beings. Some of the Rabbins reckon four, and others ten hierarchies, or orders of angels. Encyc.
2. Constitution and government of the Christian church, or ecclesiastical polity, comprehending different orders of clergy; as, the hierarchy of England. Bacon.

HI-E-RAT'IC, a.¹ [Gr. ιερος, sacred.]

1. Consecrated to sacred uses.
2. Applied to a mode of Egyptian writing, chiefly used in papyri, considered as a cursive mode of writing hieroglyphics, or hieroglyphic short hand.

HI-E-RAT'IC, a.² [Gr. ιερατικος, sacerdotal, from ιερος, sacred.]

Sacerdotal; pertaining to priests. Russell.

HI-E-ROC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. ιερος and κρατεω.]

Government by ecclesiastics. Jefferson.

HI'E-RO-GLYPH, or HI-E-RO-GLYPH'IC, n. [Gr. ιερος, sacred, and γλυφω, to carve.]

1. In antiquity, a sacred character; a mystical character or symbol, used in writings and inscriptions, particularly by the Egyptians, as signs of sacred, divine, or supernatural things. The hieroglyphics were figures of animals, parts of the human body, mechanical instruments, &c., which contained a meaning known only to kings and priests. It is supposed they were used to vail morality, politics, &c., from vulgar eyes. Encyc.
2. Pictures intended to express historical facts; supposed to be the primitive mode of writing.
3. The art of writing in picture. Swift.

HI-E-RO-GLYPH'IC, or HI-E-RO-GLYPH'I-CAL, a.

Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.

HI-E-RO-GLYPH'IC-AL-LY, adv.

Emblematically; by characters or pictures expressive of facts or moral qualities. The Mexicans wrote history hieroglyphically.

HI-E-RO-GLYPH'IST, n.

One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.

HI'E-RO-GRAM, n. [Gr. ιερος, sacred, and γραμμα, letter.]

A species of sacred writing.

HI-E-RO-GRAM-MAT'IC, a. [Gr. ιερος, sacred, and γραμμα, letter.]

Denoting a kind of writing in sacred or sacerdotal characters, used only by the priests in Egypt. Warburton.

HI-E-RO-GRAM'MAT-IST, n.

A writer of hieroglyphics; a sacred scribe.

HI-E-RO-GRAPH'IC, or HI-E-RO-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to sacred writing.

HI-E-ROG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. ιερος, holy, and γραφω, to write.]

Sacred writing. [Little used.]

HI-E-RO-LOG'IC, or HI-E-RO-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to hierology. Gliddon.

HI-E-ROL'O-GIST, n.

One versed in hierology.

HI-E-ROL'O-GY, n. [Gr. ιερος and λογος.]

A discourse on sacred things.

HI-E-ROL'O-GY, n.

The science which treats of the ancient writings and inscriptions of the Egyptians, or a treatise on that science.

HI'E-RO-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. ιερος, sacred, and μαντεια, divination.]

Divination by observing the various things offered in sacrifice. Encyc.

HI-E-ROM'NE-MON, n. [Gr. ιερος, sacred, and μνημων, preserving memory.]

In ancient Greece, a magistrate who presided over the sacred rites and solemnities, &c. Milford.

HI'E-RO-PHANT, n. [Gr. ιεροφαντης; ιερος, sacred, and φαινω, to show.]

A priest; one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion. Hale.

HI-E-RO-PHANT'IC, a.

Relating to hierophants; sacred.