hieroglyphical
AdjectiveSynonyms:
hieroglyphic
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Adjective (2)
- resembling hieroglyphic writingSynonyms: hieroglyphicRelating to hieroglyph
- written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbolsSynonyms: hieroglyphicRelating to hieroglyph
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Hi′er·o·glyph′ic, Hi′er·o·glyph′ic·al adjective
Origin: L. hieroglyphicus, Gr. …; ἱερός sacred + γλύφειν to carve: cf. F. hiéroglyphique.
1. Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.
Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.— John Wilson
2. Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. “An hieroglyphical scrawl.” Sir Walter Scott
3. of or pertaining to hieroglyphs. [wns=1]
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5