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US
/ˌhaɪɹoʊˈɡɫɪfɪk/
]
[ UK /hˌaɪəɹəɡlˈɪfɪk/ ]
[ UK /hˌaɪəɹəɡlˈɪfɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- resembling hieroglyphic writing
- written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols
NOUN
- writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
How To Use hieroglyphic In A Sentence
- Dated 196 B.C., the stone is engraved with Greek and hieroglyphic texts that enabled scholars to decipher ancient Egyptian writing.
- The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
- They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
- The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
- Khem was considered the generating influence of the sun, whence perhaps the reason of his being connected with Amen-Ra: and in one of the hieroglyphic legends accompanying his name he is styled the sun; that is the pro-creating power of the only source of warmth, which assists in the continuation of the various created species. The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion
- I had aced the course in high school, so what were these hieroglyphics that the professor scribbled on the blackboard with such gusto?
- The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek.
- Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
- This object is described in hieroglyphic dictionaries as a "cake," and it certainly does resemble a kind of hot cross-bun frequently represented in pictures of offerings; but the sign (pronounced nu) is really intended for a walled town, with Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
- Logotypes and logograms push typography in the direction of hieroglyphics, which tend to be looked at rather than read.