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[syn: hierarchical, hierarchal, hierarchic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hierarchal \Hi"er*arch`al\, Hierarchic \Hi`er*arch"ic\, a.
Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard."
--Milton.
[1913 Webster] hierarchic
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hierarchal
adj 1: classified according to various criteria into successive
levels or layers; "it has been said that only a
hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can
produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values
honesty comes first" [syn: hierarchical, hierarchal,
hierarchic] [ant: nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical]