01 a. Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.
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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.
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Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable.
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of or pertaining to hieroglyphs.