Hieratic
Definition of Hieratic
Hi`er`at´ic
a.
1.
Consecrated
to
sacred
uses
;
sacerdotal
;
pertaining
to
priests
.
Hieratic character
a
mode
of
ancient
Egyptian
writing
;
a
modified
form
of
hieroglyphics
,
tending
toward
a
cursive
hand
and
formerly
supposed
to
be
the
sacerdotal
character
,
as
the
demotic
was
supposed
to
be
that
of
the
people
.
It
was
a
false
notion
of
the
Greeks
that
of
the
three
kinds
of
writing
used
by
the
Egyptians
,
two
-
for
that
reason
called
hieroglyphic
and
hieratic
-
were
employed
only
for
sacred
,
while
the
third
,
the
demotic
,
was
employed
for
secular
,
purposes
.
No
such
distinction
is
discoverable
on
the
more
ancient
Egyptian
monuments
;
bur
we
retain
the
old
names
founded
on
misapprehension
.
- W. H. Ward (Johnson's Cyc.).
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