hierarchal

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hierarchal - 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

hierarchal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]