hieroglyphicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌhʌɪ(ə)rəˈɡlɪfɪk/, U.S.

/ˌhaɪ(ə)rəˈɡlɪfɪk/,

/ˌhaɪ(ə)roʊˈɡlɪfɪk/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s hy-, -gli-, -f-, -i(c)que, -ik(e, -ick; 1600s gie-.

Etymology: < French hiéroglyphique (1529 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) or late Latin hieroglyphicus, < Greek ἱερογλυϕικός, < ἱερός sacred + γλυϕή carving (compare γλυϕικός). The adjective was used substantively by Plutarch, τὰ ἱερογλυϕικά (sc. γράμματα) letters, writing, whence hieroglyphics.

A. adj.

1. Of the nature of an Egyptian or similar hieroglyph (sense 1); written in or consisting of hieroglyphics.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written character > [adjective] > hieroglyphics

hieroglyphic1585

hierogrammaticala1641

hierogrammatic1740

hierographic1784

hierographical1784

society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > relating to hieroglyphics > of the nature of or written in

hieroglyphic1585

hieroglyphical1605

hieroglyphed1881

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xvi. 50 A fair obelisquie..50 cubits high beset with letters Hieroglificque.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. ii. §11 Translated into Hieroglyphick Characters.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vi. 217 In the old Writings of the Egyptians, I mean their hieroglyphick Writing.

1857 F. M. Müller in Times 20 Apr. 6/3 The Chinese..was in its origin a hieroglyphic system.

1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. x. 186 The Rosetta stone..containing an inscription in three characters, hieroglyphic, enchorial, and Greek.

2. transferred and figurative. Of the nature of a hieroglyph (sense 2); having a hidden meaning; symbolical, emblematic.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective]

figural?a1500

sacramental1534

shadowing1579

hieroglyphical1581

similitudinary1581

morala1616

symbolical1620

characterical1634

shadowy1641

emblematical1644

emblematic1645

hieroglyphic1647

symbolic1681

emblematizing1751

tokening1820

imagerial1837

twi-necked1840

personating1851

symptomatic1853

symbolizing1909

uroboric1958

1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 25 So that all faire Species bee Hyeroglyphick markes of Thee.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hieroglyphick Marks (in Palmestry), those winding Lines and Wrinkles in the Hand, by which the Professours of that vain Science pretend to foretell strange Things.

1878 C. Stanford Symbols Christ (new ed.) vii. 175 It locked in hieroglyphic language the truth.

3. Containing or inscribed with hieroglyphs.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > bearing inscription > hieroglyphic

hieroglyphic1663

hieroglyph1853

hieroglyphed1877

1663 A. Cowley Complaint in Verses Several Occasions i A wondrous Hieroglyphick Robe she wore.

1675 E. Coles (title) Nolens Volens..together with the Youths' Hieroglyphick Bible.

4. humorously. Difficult to decipher.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > bad > illegible or untidy

unlegible1451

foul?1467

scribbled1550

scribbling1592

crabbed1612

hieroglyphical1613

scrabbled1625

illegible1640

unreadable1655

scribbly1659

pot-hook1674

scrawlinga1754

undecipherable1758

scribblative1829

scrawly1833

scrawny1833

scrawled1848

hieroglyphic1856

pot-hooky1867

scriggly1896

chicken scratch1933

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 1 A hieroglyphic scrawl.

B. n.

1. originally in plural = Greek τὰ ἱερογλυϕικά. The characters or mode of writing used by the ancient Egyptians (or by transference, other peoples), consisting of figures of objects directly or figuratively representing words (picture-writing), or, in certain circumstances, syllables or letters. The singular is rarely used: see hieroglyph n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > hieroglyphics

hieroglyphic1586

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 149 The same that the auncient Hieroglyphiques weare with the Ægiptians.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gierogliphique, gierogliphicall; of, or belonging to, Gierogliphickes.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 811 The Indians of..Mexico, shewed unto a Jesuit their Bookes..which in figures and Hieroglyphickes represented things after their manner.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 338 They [Chinese] use not letters but Characters, or Hyerogliphicks, of which they have above 40000.

1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 319 The antient Mexicans..in those pretended Histories, preserv'd by fanciful Hieroglyphicks.

1758 J. Kennedy Curiosities of Wilton House 47 The Statue of Isis..There are a great Multitude of Hieroglyphicks quite round the Bottom.

a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 558/1 The invention of a system of hieroglyphics.

1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains II. i. xi. 9 Between them [sc.the figures] is a cartouche, containing a name or words in hieroglyphics.

a. A picture standing for a word or notion, esp. one symbolizing something which it does not directly figure (like many of the Egyptian hieroglyphs); hence, a figure, device, or sign, having some hidden meaning; a secret or enigmatical symbol, an emblem; a hieroglyph.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > pictograph

hieroglyphic1596

pictograph1851

pictogram1885

picturegraph1915

1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 19 Commending onely vnto them Hierogliphiks, or holy preaching signes.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. E Palme..an Hieroglyphick or Embleme of victory and conquest.

1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) ii. i. 107 Flax was the Hieroglyphicke of Fate among the Aegyptians.

1638 F. Quarles (title) Hieroglyphikes of the life of Man.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 45 A silken string circles both their bodies as the Hyerogliphic or bond of Wedlock.

1688 J. Ogilby tr. G. de Magaillans Hist. China 70 It is the nature of Hieroglyphicks not to be the natural figures of the things which they signifie, but only to represent them.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 9 Dec. 281 Water is the proper hieroglyphick of easy prattle.

a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1811) 134 The Levitical rites were nothing less than the gospel itself in hieroglyphics.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. vi. 220 He was the first that imprinted new year cakes with the mysterious hieroglyphics of the Cock and Breeches.

1891 Wilson in Colleges Oxford 245 The grotesque figures or ‘hieroglyphics’ in the Cloister Quadrangle [Magd. Coll.] were painted..in honour of his coming.

b. plural humorously. Characters or writing difficult to make out. Cf. hieroglyph n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible

scribbling1536

scribble-scrabble1602

scrawling1612

scrawl1710

scrawls1728

hieroglyphic1742

scoteinography1779

scratch1785

pot-hookery1795

hen scrat1825

cryptogram1827

scribble1828

griffonage1832

hen-scratching1851

chicken scratches1863

hieroglyph1875

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 174 Petitions sign'd with numberless Hands and frightful Hieroglyphicks.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xv. 296 About a year after Miss Matty set up shop, I received one of Martha's hieroglyphics, begging me to come to Cranford very soon.

1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 155 Inability to decipher the hieroglyphics of Bradshaw.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 74 Some ladies..cross their writing till the page becomes a chequer-work of unintelligible hieroglyphics.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† hieroglyphicv.

Etymology: < hieroglyphic adj.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To represent by, or as by, a hieroglyphic; to symbolize.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)]

token971

to stand for ——a1387

presentc1390

discern?a1439

liken?c1450

adumbrate1537

figurate?1548

character1555

shadow1574

shade1591

characterize1594

symbolize1603

hieroglyphic1615

personatea1616

modelizea1628

similize1646

symptom1648

express1649

signaturize1669

image1778

embryo1831

symbol1832

society > communication > writing > written character > represent by written character [verb (transitive)] > represent by hieroglyphic

hieroglyphic1615

1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 36 Perhaps he meanes to Hieroglyphicke vnto vs, what wondrous engines siluer tooles are in Rome.

1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 15 By Cupid..was hieroglyphict the love that was between her and her husband.

1653 E. Chisenhale Catholike Hist. 125 It was made like a Nut, and did thereby Hierogliphick its short continuance.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 282 As for Winefrid's Life being Hieroglyphick'd on the windows of Holywell Church.

2. To interpret or express, as a hieroglyphic.

ΚΠ

1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iii. 112 He doth Hierogliphick my name of I. R. in English, Latin, and Hebrew, making mee in the one Lack Roague, in the other Iscarioth de Rubigine, and Ishmael Rabshacheh in the third.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	hieroglyphic
释义	hieroglyphicadj.n. Brit. /ˌhʌɪ(ə)rəˈɡlɪfɪk/, U.S. /ˌhaɪ(ə)rəˈɡlɪfɪk/, /ˌhaɪ(ə)roʊˈɡlɪfɪk/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s hy-, -gli-, -f-, -i(c)que, -ik(e, -ick; 1600s gie-. Etymology: < French hiéroglyphique (1529 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) or late Latin hieroglyphicus, < Greek ἱερογλυϕικός, < ἱερός sacred + γλυϕή carving (compare γλυϕικός). The adjective was used substantively by Plutarch, τὰ ἱερογλυϕικά (sc. γράμματα) letters, writing, whence hieroglyphics. A. adj. 1. Of the nature of an Egyptian or similar hieroglyph (sense 1); written in or consisting of hieroglyphics. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [adjective] > hieroglyphics hieroglyphic1585 hierogrammaticala1641 hierogrammatic1740 hierographic1784 hierographical1784 society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > relating to hieroglyphics > of the nature of or written in hieroglyphic1585 hieroglyphical1605 hieroglyphed1881 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xvi. 50 A fair obelisquie..50 cubits high beset with letters Hieroglificque. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. ii. §11 Translated into Hieroglyphick Characters. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vi. 217 In the old Writings of the Egyptians, I mean their hieroglyphick Writing. 1857 F. M. Müller in Times 20 Apr. 6/3 The Chinese..was in its origin a hieroglyphic system. 1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. x. 186 The Rosetta stone..containing an inscription in three characters, hieroglyphic, enchorial, and Greek. 2. transferred and figurative. Of the nature of a hieroglyph (sense 2); having a hidden meaning; symbolical, emblematic. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective] figural?a1500 sacramental1534 shadowing1579 hieroglyphical1581 similitudinary1581 morala1616 symbolical1620 characterical1634 shadowy1641 emblematical1644 emblematic1645 hieroglyphic1647 symbolic1681 emblematizing1751 tokening1820 imagerial1837 twi-necked1840 personating1851 symptomatic1853 symbolizing1909 uroboric1958 1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 25 So that all faire Species bee Hyeroglyphick markes of Thee. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hieroglyphick Marks (in Palmestry), those winding Lines and Wrinkles in the Hand, by which the Professours of that vain Science pretend to foretell strange Things. 1878 C. Stanford Symbols Christ (new ed.) vii. 175 It locked in hieroglyphic language the truth. 3. Containing or inscribed with hieroglyphs. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > bearing inscription > hieroglyphic hieroglyphic1663 hieroglyph1853 hieroglyphed1877 1663 A. Cowley Complaint in Verses Several Occasions i A wondrous Hieroglyphick Robe she wore. 1675 E. Coles (title) Nolens Volens..together with the Youths' Hieroglyphick Bible. 4. humorously. Difficult to decipher. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > bad > illegible or untidy unlegible1451 foul?1467 scribbled1550 scribbling1592 crabbed1612 hieroglyphical1613 scrabbled1625 illegible1640 unreadable1655 scribbly1659 pot-hook1674 scrawlinga1754 undecipherable1758 scribblative1829 scrawly1833 scrawny1833 scrawled1848 hieroglyphic1856 pot-hooky1867 scriggly1896 chicken scratch1933 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 1 A hieroglyphic scrawl. B. n. 1. originally in plural = Greek τὰ ἱερογλυϕικά. The characters or mode of writing used by the ancient Egyptians (or by transference, other peoples), consisting of figures of objects directly or figuratively representing words (picture-writing), or, in certain circumstances, syllables or letters. The singular is rarely used: see hieroglyph n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > hieroglyphics hieroglyphic1586 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 149 The same that the auncient Hieroglyphiques weare with the Ægiptians. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gierogliphique, gierogliphicall; of, or belonging to, Gierogliphickes. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 811 The Indians of..Mexico, shewed unto a Jesuit their Bookes..which in figures and Hieroglyphickes represented things after their manner. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 338 They [Chinese] use not letters but Characters, or Hyerogliphicks, of which they have above 40000. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 319 The antient Mexicans..in those pretended Histories, preserv'd by fanciful Hieroglyphicks. 1758 J. Kennedy Curiosities of Wilton House 47 The Statue of Isis..There are a great Multitude of Hieroglyphicks quite round the Bottom. a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 558/1 The invention of a system of hieroglyphics. 1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains II. i. xi. 9 Between them [sc.the figures] is a cartouche, containing a name or words in hieroglyphics. 2. a. A picture standing for a word or notion, esp. one symbolizing something which it does not directly figure (like many of the Egyptian hieroglyphs); hence, a figure, device, or sign, having some hidden meaning; a secret or enigmatical symbol, an emblem; a hieroglyph. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > pictograph hieroglyphic1596 pictograph1851 pictogram1885 picturegraph1915 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 19 Commending onely vnto them Hierogliphiks, or holy preaching signes. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. E Palme..an Hieroglyphick or Embleme of victory and conquest. 1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) ii. i. 107 Flax was the Hieroglyphicke of Fate among the Aegyptians. 1638 F. Quarles (title) Hieroglyphikes of the life of Man. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 45 A silken string circles both their bodies as the Hyerogliphic or bond of Wedlock. 1688 J. Ogilby tr. G. de Magaillans Hist. China 70 It is the nature of Hieroglyphicks not to be the natural figures of the things which they signifie, but only to represent them. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 9 Dec. 281 Water is the proper hieroglyphick of easy prattle. a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1811) 134 The Levitical rites were nothing less than the gospel itself in hieroglyphics. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. vi. 220 He was the first that imprinted new year cakes with the mysterious hieroglyphics of the Cock and Breeches. 1891 Wilson in Colleges Oxford 245 The grotesque figures or ‘hieroglyphics’ in the Cloister Quadrangle [Magd. Coll.] were painted..in honour of his coming. b. plural humorously. Characters or writing difficult to make out. Cf. hieroglyph n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible scribbling1536 scribble-scrabble1602 scrawling1612 scrawl1710 scrawls1728 hieroglyphic1742 scoteinography1779 scratch1785 pot-hookery1795 hen scrat1825 cryptogram1827 scribble1828 griffonage1832 hen-scratching1851 chicken scratches1863 hieroglyph1875 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 174 Petitions sign'd with numberless Hands and frightful Hieroglyphicks. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xv. 296 About a year after Miss Matty set up shop, I received one of Martha's hieroglyphics, begging me to come to Cranford very soon. 1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 155 Inability to decipher the hieroglyphics of Bradshaw. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 74 Some ladies..cross their writing till the page becomes a chequer-work of unintelligible hieroglyphics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † hieroglyphicv. Etymology: < hieroglyphic adj. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To represent by, or as by, a hieroglyphic; to symbolize. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)] token971 to stand for ——a1387 presentc1390 discern?a1439 liken?c1450 adumbrate1537 figurate?1548 character1555 shadow1574 shade1591 characterize1594 symbolize1603 hieroglyphic1615 personatea1616 modelizea1628 similize1646 symptom1648 express1649 signaturize1669 image1778 embryo1831 symbol1832 society > communication > writing > written character > represent by written character [verb (transitive)] > represent by hieroglyphic hieroglyphic1615 1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 36 Perhaps he meanes to Hieroglyphicke vnto vs, what wondrous engines siluer tooles are in Rome. 1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 15 By Cupid..was hieroglyphict the love that was between her and her husband. 1653 E. Chisenhale Catholike Hist. 125 It was made like a Nut, and did thereby Hierogliphick its short continuance. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 282 As for Winefrid's Life being Hieroglyphick'd on the windows of Holywell Church. 2. To interpret or express, as a hieroglyphic. ΚΠ 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iii. 112 He doth Hierogliphick my name of I. R. in English, Latin, and Hebrew, making mee in the one Lack Roague, in the other Iscarioth de Rubigine, and Ishmael Rabshacheh in the third. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.n.1585v.1615
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