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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Hieroglyphic \Hi`er*o*glyph"ic\, Hieroglyphical
\Hi`er*o*glyph"ic*al\, a. [L. hieroglyphicus, Gr. ?; "iero`s
sacred + gly`fein to carve: cf. F. hi['e]roglyphique.]
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.
资料来源 : WordNet®
hieroglyphical
adj 1: resembling hieroglyphic writing [syn: {hieroglyphic}]
2: written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial
symbols [syn: {hieroglyphic}]