Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a hieroglyphic manner; emblematically.
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- adverb In hieroglyphics.
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- adverb In
hieroglyphics .
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- adverb by means of hieroglyphs
Etymologies
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Examples
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That we may the more easily recognize the historian, a serpent is dropping from him, hieroglyphically.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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Many a nebulous mass of hieroglyphically inscribed meanings did he -- this Champollion, defying all human enigmas, this Herschel, or Lord Rosse, forever peering into the obscure chasms and yawning abysses of human astronomy -- resolve into orderly constellations, that, once and for all, through his telescopic interpretation and enlargement, were rendered distinct and commensurable amongst men.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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On one of the ragged garments worn by a man of about twenty-five I counted no less than thirty-four patches of different shapes, sizes and materials, hieroglyphically and skillessly thrown together to hide his sore-strewn back; but still his brown unwashed flesh was visible in many places.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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Egyptian mode of representing hieroglyphically a particular chronological era or cycle.
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The rising sun or Horus, in whose arms it was asserted, the dead arose into the upper life, was represented by the scarabæus under the name of Khepra, Khepera, or Khepri, this name among its other meanings signifying: "The itself transforming," and this is hieroglyphically written by the use of the scarabæus.
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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Her monuments are but hieroglyphically sempiternal.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Through a few openings in these metallic flames we perceived a large sphere of a darker kind of metal nearly of a clouded copper colour, which they enclosed and seemingly raged around, as if hieroglyphically consuming it ....
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Dispatched round the island with divers bits of tappa, hieroglyphically stamped, he merely deposited one upon each altar; superadding a stone, to keep the missive in its place; and so went his rounds.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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_Dawn_, of the resurrection of Light and the renewal of life, and therefore of the dawn of the first day, and more particularly of the resurrection: and the Cross and Rose together are therefore hieroglyphically to be read, _the Dawn of Eternal Life_ which all
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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It is written hieroglyphically with numbers and images; and the Apostle often appeals to the intelligence of the Initiated.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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