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Definition of Hieroglyphics
1. hieroglyphic [n] - See also: hieroglyphic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hieroglyphics
Literary usage of Hieroglyphics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"hieroglyphics OF THE RED INDIANS. Л most extraordinary instance of a literary
hoax, or deception, taken from the Paris correspondence of the ..."
2. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"The first step towards deciphering the hieroglyphics was made when it was
ascertained that ... The Egyptian hieroglyphics form a system of picture-writing, ..."
3. Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life: the Employments by Levi W. Yaggy, Thomas Louis Haines (1883)
"-r hieroglyphics (styled by the Egyptians ... These may be styled pure hieroglyphics.
2. ... The following hieroglyphics ..."
4. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version by Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1880)
"Chap. 36. 1. Hieratic and Demotic, the two sorts of letters written from right
to left. 2. hieroglyphics. 3. Three kinds of writing. 4. Hieratic. 5. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1835)
"The Four Canopi, in alabaster; the covers representing the human head, down the
front of each vase 3 lines of hieroglyphics; from Memphis, ..."
6. History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (1873)
"The Egyptians were well skilled in all three kinds of hieroglyphics. But, although
their public monuments display the first class, in their ordinary ..."
7. History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient by William Hickling Prescott (1882)
"But ] the Egyptians were familiar with their hieroglyphics from infancy, which,
moreover, took the fancies of the most illiterate, probably in the same ..."
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