pictographyn.
/pɪkˈtɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /pɪkˈtɑɡrəfi/ The recording of ideas or events by pictorial symbols; picture-writing.
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curiologic1816
pictography1851
1851 H. R. Schoolcraft Hist. & Statist. Information Indian Tribes U.S. I. vi. 333 Indian Pictography.
1862 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 332/2 Genuine specimens of American pictography.
1911 J. L. Myres Dawn of Hist. 180 Such contact as there may be between the pictography of Crete and that of the plateau of Asia Minor.
1998 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 102 216/1 Phonetic writing in the West descends not from pictography, a view repeated everywhere, but from abstract, nonphonetic, mostly noniconographic accounting tokens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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