'Curiologic' definitions:
Definition of 'Curiologic'
From: GCIDE
- Curiologic \Cu`ri*o*log"ic\ (-?-l?j"?k), a. [Gr. kyriologiko`s speaking literally (applied to curiologic hieroglyphics); ky`rios authoritative, proper + lo`gos word, thought. Cf. Cyriologic.] Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'curiologic'
From: GCIDE
- Kyriological \Kyr`i*o*log"ic*al\, a. [See Curiologic.] Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic. [Written also curiologic and kuriologic.] [1913 Webster]
- Note: The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to those Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part is put conventionally for the whole, as in depicting a battle by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow. Kythe