单词 | curiologic |
释义 | curiologicadj.n. A. adj. Of or pertaining to that form of hieroglyphic writing in which objects are represented by pictures, and not by symbolic characters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > picture-writing cyriologic1660 curiologic1669 curiological1814 cyriological1824 pictographic1851 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. xi. 64 The last and most perfect [mode of discourse and writing] is Hieroglyphic, whereof one is Curiologic, the other Symbolic. 1760 Antiq. in Ann. Reg. 156/2 The proper or curiologic character expressed the sun by a figure representing that luminary. 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 27 The kind of hieroglyphics which the Egyptians very properly named Curiologic. 1826 Edinb. Rev. 45 101 The method of Egyptian writing called..the Hieroglyphic,—of which one sort is kuriologic (or expressive of objects in a proper, not figurative or metaphorical, manner). B. n. Representation by picture-writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > picture-writing picture-writing1741 curiologic1816 pictography1851 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 33 Men were led on step by step from hieroglyphics or picture-writing, to curiologics, an abridged form of the former. 1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 206 In this land the umbrella is a rude kind of curiologics, faintly resembling European blazonry. Derivatives curioˈlogical adj. = A., ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > picture-writing cyriologic1660 curiologic1669 curiological1814 cyriological1824 pictographic1851 1814 Edinb. Rev. Nov. 147 Those hieroglyphics in which part of a material object is put for the whole are called curiological. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. ii. §49. 164 The picture-writing of the Mexicans..had been partially differentiated into the kuriological or imitative, and the tropical or symbolic. curioˈlogically adv. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adverb] > picture-writing curiologically1742 1742 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 2) II. iv. iv. 105 Hieroglyphics were written curiologically and symbolically. curiˈology n. representation by curiologic symbols.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 32 The same system of curiology must have prevailed at a very early period. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1669 |
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