Hierarchies
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 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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