资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kyriological \Kyr`i*o*log"ic*al\, a. [See {Curiologic}.]
   Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or
   alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of
   sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented
   the pure elementary sounds. See {Curiologic}. [Written also
   {curiologic} and {kuriologic}.]

   Note: The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to those
         Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part is put
         conventionally for the whole, as in depicting a battle
         by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow.