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adv. - By means of the writing system using pictorial symbols.

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  • hieroglyphically written
  • Noun : the confusing hieroglyphics of advanced mathematics
  • That we may the more easily recognize the historian, a serpent is dropping from him, hieroglyphically.
  • 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...
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