hieroglyphic
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- noun
- /ˌhaɪəroʊˈɡlɪfɪk/
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jeroglífico
- So in there he talks about these hieroglyphic inscriptions from Egypt called the from this temple in EDFU, which he claims describe Plato's Atlantis.
Examples
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Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic.
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It's an ancient hieroglyphic script that was almost forgotten about for thousands and thousands of years.
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And we had like some of the earliest hieroglyphic writing about looting.
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Below this sign is another hieroglyphic that contains the secret of the astral plane, which has to be dominated by the mental.
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Here in the temple of Isis at Phile is the last hieroglyphic inscription ever written.
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He's written approximately one-third of the Encyclopedia Britannica on his left arm, and he's looking for a certain hieroglyphic in a certain hallway.
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These objects, which are not trivial for Marx, are possessed of a secret; they are a "social hieroglyphic" (1:71, 74).
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Well, the funny thing is that the Eye of Horus has a teardrop underneath it in its original Egyptian hieroglyphic, and that tear is supposed to be for the unspeakable destruction he is about to unleash upon the humans of this earth.
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Like a photographic negative, the mirrored script functions like a cipher or, in the story's terms, a "hieroglyphic" (Doyle 1953, 731-32).
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The archaeologists carefully studied the ancient hieroglyphic inscriptions on the temple walls.
Synonyms
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A writing system made of pictures used by ancient Egyptians
Surface Forms
Morphology
hieroglyphic = hieroglyph (transparent) = hieroglyph + ic
Clear and regular formation from the noun 'hieroglyph' plus the adjectival suffix '-ic', directly meaning 'relating to hieroglyphs'.
Etymology
Hieroglyphic comes from Greek parts hieros 'sacred' and glyph 'carving', so it originally meant a 'sacred carving' of picture signs. Ancient Egyptians used these carved pictures to stand for words and sounds, which is why their picture writing is called hieroglyphic.