Ideographic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In phonetics, pertaining to or composed of ideograms.
  • Representing ideas directly, and not through the medium of their names: applied specifically to that mode of writing which, by means of symbols, figures, or hieroglyphics, suggests the idea of an object without expressing its name.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.
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  • adjective. of or relating to or consisting of ideograms
  • Word Usage
    "The symbolical, or tropical (by Bunsen termed ideographic), substituted one object for another, to which it bore an analogy, as heaven and a star expressed night; a leg in a trap, deceit; two arms stretched towards heaven expressed the word offering; a censer with some grains of incense, adoration; a bee was made to signify Lower"
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