Definition of "hieroglyphical"
hieroglyphical
adjective
comparative more hieroglyphical, superlative most hieroglyphical
Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.
Quotations
[M]ay we not say that Teufeldröckh's Biography, allowing it even, as suspected, only a hieroglyphical truth, exhibits a man, as it were preappointed for Clothes-Philosophy?
1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Pause”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], book second, page 141
Indisputable historical facts, recorded in this invaluable book, were treated by them as hieroglyphical symbols of chemical processes: and the fundamental truths of the christian religion were applied, in a wanton and blasphemous manner, to the purposes of making gold, and distilling the elixir of life.
1835, An Oxonian, Thaumaturgia