Definition of "pictographic" [pictographic]

• Represented by pictures (adjective)
• Of or pertaining to pictographs (adjective)

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• "In his work on the peopling of colonial North America, Bernard Bailyn describes, in pictographic terms, the experience of voyagers on the Hector, a ship that carried 189 passengers from Scotland to the north shores of Nova Scotia during the summer of 1773."
• "Beyer, however, points out several representations of the face of Tonatiuh as the sun in pictographic codices of central Mexico that show the same configuration as the Sun Stone, including the surrounding Glyph 4 Movement (Nahui Ollin)."
• "Originally conceived as a graphic novel in the pictographic format of the surviving Mayan codices, the project -- eight years in the making -- consisted of over 100 illustrations by Malcolm McNeill, 30 in full color and about 50 pages of text."