Noun : the confusing hieroglyphics of advanced mathematics.    From Dictionary.com. 

It contains upwards of two hundred historical manuscripts, some in hieroglyphical characters anterior to the conquest, and many in the different ancient languages of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference

In the first place, it is apparent that the style of writing has been invented which is called hieroglyphical, and which has the appearance of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Egypt] Reference

The hieroglyphical inscription has thirty-seven lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

These probably were only devices of a hieroglyphical character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer] Reference

It could be written eight or ten times as fast as the hieroglyphical form.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Without comparisons they are like hieroglyphical characters telling nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

Such is the purport of hieroglyphical inscriptions upon papyrus rolls found in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astral Worship] Reference

The discovery of this stone is of the greatest importance for hieroglyphical studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

In the Egyptian obelisks and hieroglyphical figures it is not easy to meet with bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial] Reference

Inlaid in them were symbols in silver and ivory, very complex, hieroglyphical, mystical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Company]

I at once looked on the figure of the animal as a kind of punning or hieroglyphical signature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

A peculiar feature of Tom Taylor's editorship was the hieroglyphical character of his handwriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

This was a simple pictorial, or hieroglyphical system, which they gradually developed into the cuneiform.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

It was now for the first time that the captain heard that he owed his deliverance to the somewhat hieroglyphical.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

I now proceeded unwarily enough to the cloisters, where I thought I might puzzle out my hieroglyphical task more in quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference

They brought with them into the valley the art of hieroglyphical writing, which later developed into the well-known cuneiform system.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Picture-painting was afterwards gradually converted into the hieroglyphical system, which is still the only kind of writing among the Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference

There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers: it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religio Medici] Reference

The hieroglyphical inscriptions are in a perpendicular line, sometimes there is but one in the middle of the breadth of the face, and often there are three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

No! If Gurdon Minho was a frost, it would have to be a musician, whose works were hieroglyphical with a dash of surgery; or, better, perhaps, a psycho-analyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Monkey] Reference

They knew the use of hieroglyphical paintings; they could work metals, and cut the hardest stones; and they had a solar year more perfect than that of the Greeks and Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference

Humboldt mentions books of hieroglyphical writing found among the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology] Reference

We owe our knowledge of ancient Egypt chiefly to hieroglyphical writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outline of Universal History] Reference

Upon paper made of its fibres, the ancient Mexicans painted their hieroglyphical figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

The proposition was hailed with acclamation, but who should invent the hieroglyphical costume?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

I at once looked upon the figure of the animal as a kind of punning or hieroglyphical signature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1] Reference

In the midst of this collection of idols are two or more oblong stones, on the sides of which are hieroglyphical inscriptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

If they were also recorded in secret books of hieroglyphical writing, such as those found among the Panoes on the Ucayali, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology] Reference

Both the scarabæus and the little figure had hieroglyphical inscriptions, and she requested me to give her a translation of the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883] Reference

Pierius, in the fourth book of his "Hieroglyphics," cites this ode, and informs us that the horse was the hieroglyphical emblem of pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

America -- more especially Mexico: and it is said to have been this animal that is represented on the hieroglyphical paintings of the ancient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference

In this work I have also included (in addition to the hieroglyphical paintings I brought to Europe), fragments of all the Aztec manuscripts, collected in Rome, Veletri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

The Rupunuwini (Rupunury), on the banks of which Hortsmann discovered rocks covered with hieroglyphical figures, approaches very near this lake, but does not communicate with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

A few days later I sent him the plan for the journey, also a second copy of the translation which I had made of the hieroglyphical inscription on the Osiris or sepulchral figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883] Reference