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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hieroglyphic \Hi`er*o*glyph"ic\, Hieroglyphical \Hi`er*o*glyph"ic*al\, a. [L. hieroglyphicus Gr ?; "iero`s sacred + gly`fein to carve: cf F. hi['e]roglyphique.] 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. --Prof. Wilson. 2. Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. ``An hieroglyphical scrawl.'' --Sir W. Scott. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hieroglyphical adj 1: resembling hieroglyphic writing [syn: {hieroglyphic}] 2: written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols [syn: {hieroglyphic}]
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