Definition of "hieroglyphics" []

• Plural form of hieroglyphic. (noun)

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• "Far otherwise did heretofore the sages of Egypt, when they wrote by letters, which they called hieroglyphics, which none understood who were not skilled in the virtue, property, and nature of the things represented by them."
• "Serapis was torn down and laid bare, "says Socrates," there were found in it, engraven on stones, certain characters, which they call hieroglyphics, having the forms of crosses."
• "Egypt, when they wrote by letters, which they called hieroglyphics, which none understood who were not skilled in the virtue, property, and nature of the things represented by them."