Hieroglyphic
Hieroglyphic
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Hieroglyphic
Meaning of term hieroglyphic
Hieroglyphic (a.) A sacred character a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
Source: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/v003/wb1913_h.html
Author : OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
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