hierarchal

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Etymology

From hierarch +‎ -al.

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hierarchal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a hierarch.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      the great hierarchal standard

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