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Pronunciation: [hˌa͡ɪ͡əɹəɡlˈɪfɪk] (IPA)

Hieroglyphic refers to a system of writing used by ancient Egyptians that consisted of pictures and symbols. If you are searching for synonyms for the word "hieroglyphic", there are several options available. You could try using "picture writing" or "symbolic script" to describe similar forms of writing. Alternatively, you might use "pictography", "ideography", or "iconography" to express the idea of written communication using images rather than letters or words. Whichever term you choose, it is clear that hieroglyphs represent an important form of communication and a fascinating glimpse into the past.
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The astronomical stones of the Mexicans and Muyzcas have been preserved; but those of Peru and Central America are lost; as well as that beautiful one of the Talegas of North America, a dodecagone, with 144 hieroglyphic signs, found in the Ohio, and once kept in a museum of Philadelphia.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque
It was certainly the hieroglyphic of the country.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
There it lived year after year, generation after generation, and nobody knew what its carved birds and beasts and hieroglyphic inscriptions meant.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Famous quotes with Hieroglyphic

  • Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth, round which the Sun, the Moon, and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity, and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.
    John Dee
  • We finish the brief hieroglyphic consideration of our Monad, which we would sum up in one only hieroglyphic context: The Sun and the Moon of this Monad desire that the Elements in which the tenth proportion will flower, shall be separated, and this is done by the application of Fire.
    John Dee
  • Dee goes so far as to assert that, although he called the work hieroglyphic, it is endowed with a clarity and rigour almost mathematical; yet at the same time he leaves it to the reader even to guess that the subject of the elaborate display, which he is asked to view in such dim light, is the hermetic quest.
    John Dee
  • Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
    George Santayana

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