hieroglyphical

comparative more hieroglyphical · superlative most hieroglyphical

1. Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.

   a hieroglyphical scrawl.'

   1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC

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   [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?

   1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Pause”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 141

   Indisputable historical facts, recorded in this invaluable book, were treated by them as hieroglyphical symbols of chemical processes: and the fundamental truths of the christian religion were applied, in a wanton and blasphemous manner, to the purposes of making gold, and distilling the elixir of life.

   1835, An Oxonian, Thaumaturgia

   It is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and of the creatures of God.

   1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints’ Day and Other Sermons

   Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.

   1844, John Wilson (Scottish writer), The Genius, and Character of Burns