hi·er·ar·chy /ˈhaɪ(ə)ˌrɑrki ||ˈhɪ(ə)rˌɑr-/
 階級組織,教士政治,僧侶政治


 hierarchy
 層次 HIR


 hierarchy
 階層


 Hi·er·arch·y n.; pl. Hierarchies
 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.
 4. A rank or order of holy beings.
 Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve
 Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees.   --Milton.

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 hierarchy
      n 1: a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a
           system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"
      2: the organization of people at different ranks in an
         administrative body [syn: power structure, {pecking
         order]