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Hieroglyphic
Hieroglyphic
a.
A
sacred
character
; a
character
in
picture
writing
, as of
the
ancient
Egyptians
,
Mexicans
,
etc
.
Specifically
, in
the
plural
,
the
picture
writing
of
the
ancient
Egyptian
priests
. It is
made
up of
three
, or, as
some
say
,
four
classes
of
characters
:
first
,
the
hieroglyphic
proper
, or
figurative
, in
which
the
representation
of
the
object
conveys
the
idea
of
the
object
itself
;
second
,
the
ideographic
,
consisting
of
symbols
representing
ideas
,
not
sounds
, as an
ostrich
feather
is a
symbol
of
truth
;
third
,
the
phonetic
,
consisting
of
symbols
employed
as
syllables
of a
word
, or as
letters
of
the
alphabet
,
having
a
certain
sound
, as a
hawk
represented
the
vowel
a.
Hieroglyphic
a.
Any
character
or
figure
which
has
, or is
supposed
to
have
, a
hidden
or
mysterious
significance
;
hence
,
any
unintelligible
or
illegible
character
or
mark
.
Hieroglyphic
a.
Alt
. of
Hieroglyphical
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