hierarchic
- a classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art
in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first
- In matters of discipline, the council fathers could modify the church's laws on clerical celibacy, hierarchic pomp, fish on Friday, priestly dress, the use of Latin in the Mass .
- Particularized, rather than idealized, they represent a triumphant manipulation of space, in gilded robes and meticulously formed figures, transcending the stiff, hierarchic form .
- He gave his august backing to an eminent European prelate who had written: "The hierarchic authority is perfectly entitled to pronounce on any political party or political .