Meanings
plural hierographies
- uncountableusuallySacred writing.
“DEUS ipse arcana sua mysterijs involuit: Agnus Christum refert; eumque crucifixum ex aere Anguis,” and according to him, the Hebrews were the first nation to avail themselves of this hierography.
1979, Peter Daly, Emblem Theory: Recent German Contributions to the Characterization of the Emblem Genre, →ISBN, page 551 more example
The history of religion is not content with describing special religions (hierography), or with relating their vicissitudes and metamorphoses (the history of religions); its aim is to show how religion, considered generally as the relation between man and the superhuman powers which he believes, has developed in the course of ages among different nations and races,
1877, C.P. Tiele, translated by J. Estlin Carpenter, Outlines of the History of Religion, →OCLC, pages 1-2
Origin
- Ancient Greekἱερός“sacred”
- Englishhierography
From Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”).
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