Kyriological

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

  Kyriological \Kyr`i*o*log"ic*al\, a. [See {Curiologic}.]
     Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or
     alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of
     sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented
     the pure elementary sounds. See {Curiologic}. [Written also
     {curiologic} and {kuriologic}.]


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to those
           Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part is put
           conventionally for the whole, as in depicting a battle
           by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow.
           Kythe