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ideographic, a. (n.)|ˌɪdiːəʊˈgræfɪk, aɪ-|
(erron. idea-.)
[f. as prec. + -ic. Cf. mod.F. idéographique.]
A. adj. Of the nature of an ideograph; symbolizing an idea directly, as distinguished from the word or words by which it is expressed; relating to or composed of ideographs. Of ideographs: representing ideas pictorially or figuratively.
1822Q. Rev. XXVIII. 189 Two Memoirs to prove, that neither the hieratic..nor the demotic..writing is alphabetic..but ideographic. 1849Fraser's Mag. XL. 419 The principle..whether phonetic or ideagraphic. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xv. §123 (1875) 349 The picture⁓writing of the Mexicans was found to have given birth to a like family of ideographic forms. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech iv. (1873) 121 Chinese has only some 450 sounds, and yet has upwards of 40,000 ideographic signs. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet 174 An outside initiative has suggested the replacing of the Japanese ideographic⁓syllabic script by the Latin alphabet. 1955P. Heron Changing Forms of Art 109 This long picture..was new: it represented, as far as Picasso is concerned, the defeat of the plastic by the ideographic. 1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. Linguistic Sciences 49 The Chinese script is not ideographic: the symbols do not represent ideas, they represent formal items of the language. 1972Computers & Humanities VI. 260 Because of an ideographic writing system extending back for 3,500+ years and still shared by all the Chinese languages, cognates can be visually identified.
B. n. An ideographic character; pl. a method of writing in ideographic characters.
1846Worcester cites For. Q. Rev. 1848Cottrell tr. Bunsen's Egypt's Place I. 496 The Ideographics comprise all non-phonetic signs. 1881[see ideophonetics in ideo-].
So ideoˈgraphical a. = prec.; hence ideoˈgraphically adv., by means of ideographs.
1836Du Ponceau Chinese Syst. Writ. (1838) 48 Represent to yourself our hymn books..to be written ideographically, and to be sung ad libitum. 1842Brande Dict. Sci. etc. 584/2 Ideographical writing is opposed to phonetic. 1880Sayce in Nature 19 Feb. 379 There was a limit to the number of ideas which could be represented ideographically. |