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Hieroglyphic; Hieroglyphical
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. 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. Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. "An hieroglyphical scrawl." Sir W. Scott.