glyph
noun
a pictograph or hieroglyph.
glyphic
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a word derived from
glyph.
Example Sentences
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“Unfortunately, there has never been any glyphic evidence to link Plan de Ayutla to the Sak Tz’i’ kingdom,” Dr. Golden said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Though Basquiat quickly branched out from the graffiti scene to create complex and radical paintings, his work retained many of the glyphic and textual elements of street art.
From Architectural Digest ● Jul. 24, 2015
Some of his paintings, particularly those that contain glyphic symbols in individual cells, resemble Jungian works from the late 1940s and early ’50s by other artists on Betty Parsons’s roster, including Pollock, Rothko and Gottlieb.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2014
Not only did architecture and the glyphic art reach such perfection during this period, but the arts of life made considerable progress.
From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
The several glyphic representatives of the tradition bear, like its various written or oral editions, a considerable resemblance to each other.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
