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hieroglyphic [hire-oh-gliff-ik] Adjective of or relating to a form of writing using picture symbols, as used in ancient Egypt Noun also hieroglyph 1. a symbol that is difficult to decipher 2. a picture or symbol representing an object, idea, or sound [Greek hieros holy + gluphein to carve]
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By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi. In the left-hand corner is a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line with their arms touching. Impossible to place our Cathedral in that other family of lofty, aerial churches, rich in painted windows and sculpture; pointed in form, bold in attitude; communal and bourgeois as political symbols; free, capricious, lawless, as a work of art; second transformation of architecture, no longer hieroglyphic, immovable and sacerdotal, but artistic, progressive, and popular, which begins at the return from the crusades, and ends with Louis IX. |
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