ideographic

[English ideograph; -ic.] Representing ideas independently of sounds; spec if. applied to any mode of writing which by means of symbols, characters, figures, ., suggests or conveys the idea of an object without expre ing its name. Of this kind were the ancient hieroglyphics of the Egyptians. "The key to ideographic writing, once lost, can never be recovered."-Brinton: Myths of the New World, ch. i. i-de-ô-graphic-al, a. [Eng. ideographic; -al.] The same as IDEOGRAPHIC (q. v.). id-e-ô-graphic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. ideograph ical:-ly. In an ideographic manner; by way of ideographs or ideographics.