hieroglyphically
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a word derived from
hieroglyphic.
hieroglyphicadjectiveAlso hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
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One Guide item that could stand unstreamlining is the hieroglyphically abbreviated "Tips on Highspots" thart.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That we may the more easily recognize the historian, a serpent is dropping from him, hieroglyphically.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
It is written hieroglyphically with numbers and images; and the Apostle often appeals to the intelligence of the Initiated.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
These symbols are without doubt of very ancient origin, and Boerhæve in his Theory of Chemistry explains them hieroglyphically as follows:— The symbols are shown as images at the end of the file.
From On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art by James Mactear
Dispatched round the island with divers bits of tappa, hieroglyphically stamped, he merely deposited one upon each altar; superadding a stone, to keep the missive in its place; and so went his rounds.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville