But I would draw attention to a remarkable proof actually existing of the completeness with which the hierarchic principle had worked itself out in the days of persecution.
It was the time at which some German principalities, and the kingdoms of the North, had given themselves a constitution which rested on the exclusion of the hierarchic influences of Rome: the King could reckon on many allies in his enterprise.
Whither had the times of the first Lancaster departed, in which a special hierarchic sacredness was given to the Anointing through its connexion with Thomas Becket?
Under the authority of Papal legates, the great office-holders of the English Church, who had been opposed to the newly arisen hierarchic system, were mercilessly deprived of their places.
What a decidedly antipapal character did the Church, which retained most of the hierarchic usages, nevertheless assume!
They laid stress chiefly on the distinction between the universal, truly Catholic, Church and the Romish: they sought to reach firm ground in Christian antiquity prior to the hierarchic centuries.
But, as spiritually-minded men are moved more by universal ideas than by special interests, so for Becket the determining impulse without doubt lay above all in the sympathy which he devoted to the hierarchic movement in general.
It was still the ancestral Anglo-Saxon crown which glittered on Edgar's head, but, if we may so say, its splendour had at the same time received a monkish and hierarchic colouring.
For with the acceptance of the hierarchic ideas the prestige of their martyr grew day by day.
Then he took thehierarchic side resolutely; in contradiction to the Constitutions, he appealed to the Pope.
He returned to England filled with the ideas of hierarchic independence; in preparing to carry it through, he necessarily brought on the conflict which had hitherto been avoided.
The hierarchic ideas gained the day in England also.
The popular hells have ever been built on hierarchic selfishness, dogmatic pride, and personal cruelty, and have been walled around with arbitrary and traditional rituals.
The haughtiness and selfishness of thehierarchic spirit, the exclusiveness, cruelty, and cunning tyranny of many of the ancient priesthoods, are well known.
The hierarchic peer replied, "It rises from the damned in hell.
We might express this differently, as the degradation and exhaustion (of the divine power, which, in the whole hierarchic series of successive emanations weakens from degree to degree).
Within four years of the beginning of his mission, before, in the nature of things, one single disciple could have been more than half-trained, the hierarchic aristrocracy had had this Teacher crucified.
Ironically, this idea was developed by the American Edward Denning, but rejected by his compatriots, who literally stagnated in a hierarchic model originating from circumstances of literacy.
In the spirit of the dynamics of change, one should notice that, in a framework of non-hierarchic structures, there is no legitimate need for the presidency.
Ritter will perceive from this that I was not lying bound, as he supposed, by that hierarchic spell which extinguishes reason, and de grades man's will to the condition of a limping slave.
I suppose, also, that Schneeweiss had imagined that I was quite imbued with hierarchic views.
I have already given one example in the hierarchic title "Science.
But if a purely hierarchic distinction is a criterium at once too general and too imprecise, there is nothing left with which to characterize the sacred in its relation to the profane except their heterogeneity.
Nevertheless, all are represented in a hierarchic form.
It is noteworthy that this thearchic arrangement corresponded in many respects with the hierarchicsocial organization of the stock.
The hierarchic organization of feudalism, within church and state, of those possessed of sacred rule and those whose sole excellence was obedience, did not require moral theory to generate or explain it.
For Ignatius, as for Godfrey, all outside the catholic and hierarchic Church were not men, but wolves.
It was for him, from first to last, an unreasoning, blind obedience to the dictates of the catholic hierarchic Church.
He held that no one could be saved who was not brought to a state of abject obedience to the hierarchic Church; that such obedience was the only soil in which true virtues could be planted and grow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hierarchic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
