Thesaurus: hieroglyphical

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1. a. Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.
2. a. Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable.
3. adj. resembling hieroglyphic writing
4. adj. written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols
5. 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.
6. a resembling hieroglyphic writing a written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols