pictography
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pictography
1850–55; pictograph + -y 3; see -graphy
Example Sentences
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But as more and more symbols were catalogued�some 700 different ones at last count�scientists realized that they were characters used in pictography, a primitive writing system that uses pictures to convey ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Crampton, Henry Edward
Written characters are, in fact, derived from pictography or picture writing, those in use at the present time being only developed and conventionalized forms of primitive drawings.
From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances
The art was rudimentary and limited to crude pictography.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Indians, American, pictography of, 223, 224; of Brazil, 227; life of, 272.
From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward
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