The Collaborative International Dictionary
hierarchic \hi`er*arch"ic\, hierarchical \hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.
Syn: hierarchical, hierarchal.
2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy 2 Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.
WordNet
adv. in a hierarchical manner; "hierarchically organized"
Usage examples of "hierarchically".
The first step in doing this was to clarify for the people that Japan was a hierarchically structured state whose head was the emperor but whose actual affairs were handled by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Republics, on the other hand, had perished by the conflict of liberties and franchises, which, in the absence of all duty hierarchically sanctioned and enforced, had soon become mere tyrannies, rivals one of the other.
With much righteous indignation, they hierarchically denounce hierarchy.
The first phase of properly capitalist worker militancy, that is, the phase of industrial production that preceded the full deployment of Fordist and Taylorist regimes, was defined by the figure of the professional worker, the highly skilled worker organized hierarchically in industrial production.
The transnational corporations directly distribute labor power over various markets, functionally allocate resources, and organize hierarchically the various sectors of world production.
I divided the data into areas of related concepts and procedures and arranged the areas hierarchically according to subjective importance - that is, in terms of the impact that each of them had had on me.
But unlike the distance measurers, who, at least in theory, are prepared to let Nature tell them whether she is actually hierarchically organized, the transformed cladists assume that she is.
Human centrality emerges at the culminating 'now' of a hierarchically evolving universe" (pp.
Six splendid double stars arranged in hierarchically greater doubles.
With its dormitories, refectories, theaters, meeting rooms, and so on, it was not very different from an Odonian community, except that it was very old, was exclusively male, was incredibly luxurious, and was not organized federatively but hierarchically, from the top down.