The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hierophantic \Hi`er*o*phan"tic\, a. [Gr. "ierofantiko`s.] Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1775, from Greek herophantikos, from hierophantes (see hierophant).
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to a hierophant.
Usage examples of "hierophantic".
And as at dusk and dawn the great menhirs of Stonehenge fill with a mysterious, granitic life, seem to be praying priests of stone, so about these gathered hierophantic illusion.
Chanticleers were filled with the lumber of the past: grotesque wooden masks, old weapons and musical instruments, and old costumes -- tragic, hierophantic robes that looked little suited to the uses of daily life.
But at the word Of the ancient, sacerdotal Night, Night of the many secrets, whose effect - Transfiguring, hierophantic, dread - Themselves alone may fully apprehend, They tremble and are changed.
The ancient Hierophantic calendar is based on a lunar year divided into twelve 29-day months and four seasonal festivals, which account for an additional twelve days.
Like Barien, she can trace her lineage back to the Hierophantic migration.
Asuit Old Style, an archaic language of Plenimar, which predates the Hierophantic settlements.
This, in turn, is composed in the alphabet of the Hierophantic court, based at that period on the island of Kouros, yet in the language of an obscure tribe of the southern mountains across the Osiat Sea near Aurenen.
He was at once absurd and hierophantic, a burlesque of monarchy in his ruined finery, yet commanding in his bearing.