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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hierarchy \Hi"er*arch`y\, n.; pl. {Hierarchies}. [Gr. ?: cf. F.
   hi['e]rarchie.]
   1. Dominion or authority in sacred things.

   2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and
      orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of
      ecclesiastical rulers.

   3. A form of government administered in the church by
      patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in
      an inferior degree, by priests. --Shipley.

   4. A rank or order of holy beings.

            Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve
            Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. --Milton.