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- adjective Obsolete form of
hieroglyphic . - noun Obsolete form of
hieroglyphic .
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Examples
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The first denoted the south, in that language call'd _Uutzlampa_, whose hieroglyphick was a rabbit in a blew field, which they called _Tochtli_.
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The hieroglyphick of the north, or Micolampa, was a sword pointed with flint, call'd _Tecpatl_, in a yellow field.
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In a book* of Mr. William Lilly's, are hieroglyphick prophecies, viz. of the great plague of London, expressed by graves and dead corpses; and a scheme with ascending (the sign of London) and no planets in the twelve houses.
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661
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AEgyptians represented their kings, (many of whose names were Ptolemy) under the hieroglyphick of a bee, dispensing honey to the good and virtuous, and having a sting for the wicked and dissolute.
Hudibras Samuel Butler 1646
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Thus elegantly dressed, he strutted along the streets with a large stick in his hand about a foot taller than himself, and a small cutteau de chasse by his side, which he could handle with as much dexterity as his pen; an instrument in the use of which he had made such a contemptible proficiency, that it required as much acuteness to discover the meaning of his aukward scrawl, as to explain the hieroglyphick characters of the ancient
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