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hierarchy: see ministry ministry, in religion, term used to designate the clergy of Protestant churches, particularly those who repudiate the claims of apostolic succession . The ceremony by which the candidate receives the office of a minister is called ordination. ..... Click the link for more information. and orders, holy orders, holy [Lat. ordo,=rank], in Christianity, the traditional degrees of the clergy, conferred by the Sacrament of Holy Order. The episcopacy, priesthood or presbyterate, and diaconate were in general use in Christian churches in the 2d cent. ..... Click the link for more information. . A structure that has a predetermined ordering from high to low. For example, all files and folders on the hard disk are organized in a hierarchy (see Win Folder organization).
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| The attitude of the hierachy is so closed to even discussing the possibility, I cannot imagine that happening. The mannerist forms have a plastic quality, unfolding to reveal a hierachy of spaces that lead up and into the inner sanctum. In a standard Chinese gang hierachy known as bei or generation, they were the senior generation whose given names were earmarked by the character tian (heaven). |
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