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Definition of Hieroglyphical

1. Adjective. Resembling hieroglyphic writing.

2. Adjective. Written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols.

Definition of Hieroglyphical

1. Adjective. hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hieroglyphical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hieroglyphical

hieratical hieratically hieratite hiermartyr hiermartyrs hiero- hierocracies hierocracy hierocrat hierocrats

hierodules hieroglyph hieroglyphed hieroglyphic hieroglyphical (current term) hieroglyphically hieroglyphick hieroglyphics hieroglyphist hieroglyphists

hieroglyphs hierogram hierogrammatic hierogrammatist hierogrammatists hierograms hierographic hierographical hierography

Literary usage of Hieroglyphical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"Their hieroglyphical writings seen in many places, while all along the Canons de Choca and lie are traces of the ancient march of this people. ..."

2. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Baron Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1867)
"THE grammatical, lexicographical, and hieroglyphical chapters of this work are principally intended to be a naturally connected representation of the ..."

3. A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and by James Bell (1832)
"Ismael Pasha was assassinated during a revolution in Sennaar in 1822. Ibrahim I'asha has subsequently commanded in the Morca. Discovery of hieroglyphical ..."

4. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"The hieroglyphical senary is the symbol of the commingling of the philosophical three fires and three waters, whence results the procreation of the elements ..."

5. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"The Chinese character an improvement on the hieroglyphical. The progress of the system of the Chinese from a hieroglyphical to a purely arbitrary character, ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1836)
"The Early History of Egypt, from the Old Testament, Herodotus, Manet ho, and the hieroglyphical Inscriptions. By SAMUEL SHARPE. London : Moxon. 1836. ..."

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