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Hieroglyphic vs Hieroglyphical - What's the difference?

hieroglyphic | hieroglyphical |

As adjectives the difference between hieroglyphic and hieroglyphical

is that hieroglyphic is of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols while hieroglyphical is hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.

As a noun hieroglyphic

is (chiefly|in the plural) a writing system of ancient egypt, minoans, maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus.

hieroglyphic

English

typical of the Graeco-Roman period.

Alternative forms

* hieroglyphick

Noun

(wikipedia hieroglyphic) (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) a writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus
  • any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph
  • (by extension) undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols
    • hieroglyphic writing
    hieroglyphic obelisk
  • difficult to decipher

    • hieroglyphical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs
  • * {{quote-book, year=1831, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Sartor Resartus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nay, what is your Montesquieu himself but a clever infant spelling Letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in Eternity, in Heaven? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1835, author=An Oxonian, title=Thaumaturgia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Indisputable historical facts, recorded in this invaluable book, were treated by them as hieroglyphical symbols of chemical processes: and the fundamental truths of the christian religion were applied, in a wanton and blasphemous manner, to the purposes of making gold, and distilling the elixir of life. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Charles Kingsley, title=All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and of the creatures of God. }}
    Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. — Prof. Wilson.
    An hieroglyphical scrawl. — Sir Walter Scott.