pictography

American  

[pik-tog-ruh-fee] / pɪkˈtɒg rə fi /

noun

1. the use of pictographs; picture writing.

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Etymology

Origin of pictography

1850–55; pictograph + -y ³; see -graphy

Example Sentences

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pictography

Sun worship plays a most important part in modern Tusayan ritual, and the symbol of the sun in modern pictography can not be mistaken for any other.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Thus pictography, a method of writing that belongs to the childhood of races, may be made to communicate ideas of a strikingly complex nature.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

The Nahuatl word for eye is ix-telolotli, but in pictography it represented the phonetic value of ix only.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall

There is little doubt that many examples of aboriginal pictography exist in this neighborhood, which would reward exploration with interesting data.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

This name signifies, literally, “the head of four,” but could be expressed by the rebus of a “serpent's head,” which would obviously have been employed in pictography to express the title and rank.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall