Hieroglyphics

Proper noun

Meaning

Hieroglyphics

A miscapitalization of hieroglyphics, used as a proper noun because of the false assumption by many that hieroglyphics (i.e. Egyptian hieroglyphics) is itself a language.

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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning. Lydia Maria Child

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. David Hare (dramatist)

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm. Gabriel García Márquez

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays. Henry David Thoreau

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing. Neil Peart

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. Cecil B. DeMille

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