Hieroglyphical

[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?

Indisputable historical facts, recorded in this invaluable book, were treated by them as hieroglyphical symbols of chemical processes: and the fundamental truths of the christian religion were applied, in a wanton and blasphemous manner, to the purposes of making gold, and distilling the elixir of life.

It is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and of the creatures of God.

Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.

a hieroglyphical scrawl.'