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hierograph|ˈhaɪərəʊgrɑːf, -græf|
[f. Gr. ἱερός sacred + -γραϕος written (see -graph). Cf. eccl. Gr. (τὰ) ἱερόγραϕα representations of holy things.]
A sacred inscription or symbol: a hieroglyph.
1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVII. 860 We have deciphered their hierographs. 1854J. D. Burns Vis. Proph. 116 He saw, in radiant signatures inscribed One hierograph.
So hieˈrographer [eccl. Gr. ἱερογράϕος], a sacred scribe; hieroˈgraphic [late L. hierographicus, Gr. ἱερογραϕικός], hieroˈgraphical adjs., of the nature of, or relating to, sacred writing or symbols; in quot. 1658 = hieratic.
1605J. Dove Confut. Atheism 19 His name is engrauen there in in hierographicall letters. 1658Owen Consid. Walton's Biblia Polyglotta 262 Clemens tells us of three sorts of Characters among the ægyptians; one for things of common use, another, Hierographick, used by the Priests in their sacred Writings, and the other Hieroglyphick. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Hierographer, a Writer of Divine Things. 1784Astle Orig. & Progr. Writ. iii. (T.), Partly written in symbolic, and partly in these hierographic characters. Ibid., These [characters] were properly what the ancients call hierographical. |