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Pronunciation : Kyr`i*o*log"ic*al
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [See Curiologic.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913