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Definition: IDEOGRAPHICAL

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb ideographically.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(ideographically)
1. In an idiographic manner; "it's written ideographically".[Wordnet].
2. In a symbolical manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Ideographical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: IDEOGRAPHICAL

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb ideographically.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(ideographically)
1. In an idiographic manner; "it's written ideographically".[Wordnet].
2. In a symbolical manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "IDEOGRAPHICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)