Hieroglyphical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.

    "[M]ay we not say that Teufeldröckh's Biography, allowing it even, as suspected, only a hieroglyphical truth, exhibits a man, as it were preappointed for Clothes-Philosophy?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols wordnet
  2. 2
    resembling hieroglyphic writing wordnet

Synonyms

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hieroglyphichieroglyphic

Example

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"[M]ay we not say that Teufeldröckh's Biography, allowing it even, as suspected, only a hieroglyphical truth, exhibits a man, as it were preappointed for Clothes-Philosophy?"

Etymology

From hieroglyph + -ical.

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