Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pictographic manner; by means of pictographs.
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- adverb In a
pictographic manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Touch sensitive, pictographically accurate and adept to turning of lights, fans …
The Yellow Light Switch – Switchboard by Heo Jaesik & Lim Hojoon » Yanko Design 2010
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The entire face of the building was elaborately and beautifully carved, the decorations in their entirety recording pictographically the salient features of the lives of Ko-tah's ancestors.
The Moon Maid 1923
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Besides this, they often made a more enduring record of these acts, by reproducing them pictographically on robes, cowskins, and other hides.
Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893
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Unlike other scripts, however, Chinese still works pictographically as well as phonetically.
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