Hi`er*o*glyph"ic (?), Hi`er*o*glyph"ic*al (?), a. [L. hieroglyphicus, Gr. ; sacred + to carve: cf. F. hi'eroglyphique.]
1.
Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.
Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets.
Prof. Wilson.
2.
Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable.
"An
hieroglyphical scrawl."
Sir W. Scott.
© Webster 1913.