Hieroglyphic

Definitions

1. A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.
   in-plural
2. Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
3. Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“I must say⟳, that, at the coronation, there was little vestige left as possible "of the charms that pleased a king." "She looked," Lady Mary Wortley said, "like⟳ an Egyptian mummy, wrought with hieroglyphics of gold."”

“The hieroglyphics or symbols, however, were reversed, just as though they had been pressed on wax.”

“Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have⟳ been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model⟳ to the rest⟳ of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.”

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