Kyr`i*o*log"ic*al (?), a. [See
Curiologic.] 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.]
&fist; 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.