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1. ?riestly rule or government; a system of ecclesiastical rule: A hierarchy can be the dominion in holy things.
2 . The collective body of ecclesiastical rulers; A hierarchy is an organized group of priests or clergy in successive orders or grades.
3. A body of persons or things ranked in grades, orders, or classes, one above another: A hierarchy can be specifically exemplified in, in natural science and logic as a system or series of terms of successive rank (as classes, orders, genera, species, etc.) and is used in classification.
2 . The collective body of ecclesiastical rulers; A hierarchy is an organized group of priests or clergy in successive orders or grades.
3. A body of persons or things ranked in grades, orders, or classes, one above another: A hierarchy can be specifically exemplified in, in natural science and logic as a system or series of terms of successive rank (as classes, orders, genera, species, etc.) and is used in classification.
It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
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The physical domination of some members of a group by other members, in relatively orderly and long-lasting patterns:
Except for the highest-ranking and lowest-ranking individuals, a given member will dominate one or more of its companions and be dominated in turn by one or more of the others in the system of dominance hierarchy.
The hierarchy is initiated and sustained by hostile behavior, albeit sometimes of a subtle and indirect nature.
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