Ideographical

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ideographic \I`de*o*graph"ic\, Ideographical
  \I`de*o*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. id['e]ographique.]
     Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by
     symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the
     word "nine," but the idea of the number itself. --
     {I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly}, adv.


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