2 definitions found 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 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Curiologic \Cu`ri*o*log"ic\ (-?-l?j"?k), a. [Gr. kyriologiko`s speaking literally (applied to curiologic hieroglyphics); ky`rios authoritative, proper + lo`gos word, thought. Cf. {Cyriologic}.] Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol. [1913 Webster]
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