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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Hierarch

/(hī"ẽr*ärk`)/ · Hi·er·arch · IPA
01 n. One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.
  1. 1.
    One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.