Kyr·i·o·log·ic·al a.  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.]
 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.

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 Cu·ri·o·log·ic a.  Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

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