Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to pictography, or the use of pictographs or pictorial signs in recording events or expressing thought; of the nature of or composed of pictographs: as, pictographic manuscripts.
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- adjective Represented by
pictures - adjective Of or pertaining to
pictographs
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- adjective consisting of or characterized by the use of pictographs
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Examples
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Beyer, however, points out several representations of the face of Tonatiuh as the sun in pictographic codices of central Mexico that show the same configuration as the Sun Stone, including the surrounding Glyph 4 Movement (Nahui Ollin).
Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III 2008
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In his work on the peopling of colonial North America, Bernard Bailyn describes, in pictographic terms, the experience of voyagers on the Hector, a ship that carried 189 passengers from Scotland to the north shores of Nova Scotia during the summer of 1773.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Beyer, however, points out several representations of the face of Tonatiuh as the sun in pictographic codices of central Mexico that show the same configuration as the Sun Stone, including the surrounding Glyph 4 Movement (Nahui Ollin).
Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III 2008
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However, in the evolution of written language there is often a stage in which the script version of the letter evolves from a pictographic version of the letter, and is therefore not quite so arbitrary.
Against Darwinism 2009
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Many of my own drawings since college days have looked like language: pictographic, hieroglyphic, calligraphic, etc..
Judy Chang: Artist Interview: John Himmelfarb Judy Chang 2011
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Originally conceived as a graphic novel in the pictographic format of the surviving Mayan codices, the project -- eight years in the making -- consisted of over 100 illustrations by Malcolm McNeill, 30 in full color and about 50 pages of text.
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Many of my own drawings since college days have looked like language: pictographic, hieroglyphic, calligraphic, etc..
Judy Chang: Artist Interview: John Himmelfarb Judy Chang 2011
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By the 2nd millennium BC, Mesopotamian script changed from pictographic to cuneiform writing (wedge shaped signs representing sounds instead of objects), and by around 2000BC the first true alphabetic system (where a phoneme is represented by a letter) appeared.
The History Of Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Many of my own drawings since college days have looked like language: pictographic, hieroglyphic, calligraphic, etc..
Judy Chang: Artist Interview: John Himmelfarb Judy Chang 2011
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Many of my own drawings since college days have looked like language: pictographic, hieroglyphic, calligraphic, etc..
Judy Chang: Artist Interview: John Himmelfarb Judy Chang 2011
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