HIEROGLYPHIC; HIEROGLYPHICAL

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.
a.

Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. "An hieroglyphical scrawl." Sir W. Scott.