hierogrammatic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HIEROGRAMMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. sacred, and letter.] Denoting a kind of writing in sacred or sacerdotal characters, used only by the priests in Egypt.
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