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hieroglyphical

hieroglyphical adjective: related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.

Adjective

hieroglyphical (comparative more hieroglyphical, superlative most hieroglyphical)

  1. Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.
    • [M]ay we not say that Teufeldröckh's Biography, allowing it even, as suspected, only a hieroglyphical truth, exhibits a man, as it were preappointed for Clothes-Philosophy?1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Pause”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 141
    • Indisputable historical facts, recorded in this invaluable book, were treated by them as hieroglyphical symbols of chemical processes: and the fundamental truths of the christian religion were applied, in a wanton and blasphemous manner, to the purposes of making gold, and distilling the elixir of...1835, An Oxonian, Thaumaturgia

Examples of hieroglyphical in a sentence

  • It is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and of the creatures of God.1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints’ Day and Other Sermons:
  • Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.1844, John Wilson (Scottish writer), The Genius, and Character of Burns:

Forms of hieroglyphical

comparativemore hieroglyphical
superlativemost hieroglyphical

Origin of hieroglyphical

From hieroglyph + -ical.

Words formed from hieroglyphical

Questions about hieroglyphical

What does hieroglyphical mean?
Hieroglyphical means related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.
How do you use hieroglyphical in a sentence?
It is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and of the creatures of God.
What part of speech is hieroglyphical?
Hieroglyphical is an adjective.

Words near hieroglyphical in the dictionary

  1. hieroglypher
  2. hieroglyphers
  3. hieroglyphic
  4. Hieroglyphic Hittite
  5. Hieroglyphic Luwian
  6. hieroglyphical
  7. hieroglyphically
  8. hieroglyphick
  9. hieroglyphicks
  10. hieroglyphics
  11. hieroglyphing

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