hieroglyphical
Adjective
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Adjective
hieroglyphical
- Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Pause”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 614372740 ↗, book second, page 141 ↗:
- [M]ay we not say that Teufeldröckh's Biography, allowing it even, as suspected, only a hieroglyphical truth, exhibits a man, as it were preappointed for Clothes-Philosophy?
- Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. — Prof. Wilson.
- An hieroglyphical scrawl. — Sir Walter Scott.
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