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curioˈlogic, a. and n.
[A bad adaptation of Gr. κῡριολογικ-ός (of which the normal Eng. repr. is cyriologic) ‘speaking literally’ (f. κύριος regular, proper, etc. + λόγος speech, -λογια speaking), applied by Clemens Alexandrinus to hieroglyphics consisting of simple pictures, as opposed to συµβολικός symbolic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to that form of hieroglyphic writing in which objects are represented by pictures, and not by symbolic characters.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. xi. 64 The last and most perfect [mode of discourse and writing] is Hieroglyphic, whereof one is Curiologic, the other Symbolic. 1760Antiq. in Ann. Reg. 156/2 The proper or curiologic character expressed the sun by a figure representing that luminary. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 27 The kind of hieroglyphics which the Egyptians very properly named Curiologic.
B. n. Representation by picture-writing.
1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 33 Men were led on step by step from hieroglyphics or picture-writing, to curiologics, an abridged form of the former. 1864R. F. Burton Dahome I. 206 In this land the umbrella is a rude kind of curiologics, faintly resembling European blazonry.
So curioˈlogical a. = prec., curioˈlogically adv. curiˈology nonce-wd., representation by curiologic symbols.
1740Warburton Div. Legat. iv. iv. iii, Hieroglyphics were written curiologically and symbolically. 1814Edin. Rev. Nov. 147 Those hieroglyphics in which part of a material object is put for the whole are called curiological. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 32 The same system of curiology must have prevailed at a very early period. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. (1870) 349 The kuriological or imitative [form]. |