hieroglyphically written. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : the confusing hieroglyphics of advanced mathematics. From Dictionary.com.
That we may the more easily recognize the historian, a serpent is dropping from him, hieroglyphically. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
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 obscure chasms and yawning abysses of human astronomy -- resolve into orderly constellations, that, once and for all, through his telescopic interpretation and enlargement, were rendered distinct and commensurable amongst men. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
Her monuments are but hieroglyphically sempiternal. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
Egyptian mode of representing hieroglyphically a particular chronological era or cycle. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
It is written hieroglyphically with numbers and images; and the Apostle often appeals to the intelligence of the Initiated. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly, the doctrine, namely, of the indwelling of the Creator in man. From Wordnik.com. [Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849)] Reference
It was for this reafon that the Greeks firft reprefented the foul hieroglyphically, under the form of a butterfly; and afterwards pro - ceeded to give it the very name of that infca. From Wordnik.com. [A father's instructions; moral tales, fables, and reflections] Reference
Dispatched round the island with divers bits of tappa, hieroglyphically stamped, he merely deposited one upon each altar; superadding a stone, to keep the missive in its place; and so went his rounds. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
Through a few openings in these metallic flames we perceived a large sphere of a darker kind of metal nearly of a clouded copper colour, which they enclosed and seemingly raged around, as if hieroglyphically consuming it. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
Our theory begins to be that, in receiving as literally authentic what was but hieroglyphically so, Hofrath Heuschrecke, whom in that case we scruple not to name Hofrath Nose-of-Wax, was made a fool of, and set adrift to make fools of others. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
The rising sun or Horus, in whose arms it was asserted, the dead arose into the upper life, was represented by the scarabæus under the name of Khepra, Khepera, or Khepri, this name among its other meanings signifying: "The itself transforming," and this is hieroglyphically written by the use of the scarabæus. From Wordnik.com. [Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.] Reference
And if he should not -- well Nancy, my little girl, "she adds hieroglyphically" there are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed. ". From Wordnik.com. [Young People's Pride] Reference
HILARY SWANK In this image by photographer Norman Jean Roy, actress Hilary Swank — a two-time Academy Award winner for her roles in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby — appears as something of a Sun Goddess, her frame outlined by golden rays, her limbs etched almost hieroglyphically against the sand, sea, and sky, not unlike a Greek or Roman figure in bas-relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Faces of Vanity Fair] Reference
Fourthly, many writers, such as Ovid, only speak poetically, and others, as Paracelsus, only mystically, whilst the remainder speak rhetorically, emblematically, or hieroglyphically. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
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