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Grammar : Adj
Spell : pik-tuh-graf, -grahf
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf

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Définition of pictographic

Origin :
  • "picture or symbol representing an idea," 1851, from Latin pictus "painted," past participle of pingere "to paint" (see paint (v.)) + -graph "something written." First used in reference to American Indian writing. Related: Pictography.
  • adj graphic
Example sentences :
  • This writing is pictographic, and although not yet translated, appears to be a contract.
  • Extract from : « Archology and the Bible » by George A. Barton
  • The figures could be duplicated in the work of the ancient Pueblos, and in the pictographic art of many of our savage tribes.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley » by William H. Holmes
  • A pictographic painting--the Coat of Arms of the great family of Shewish hung upon the wall.
  • Extract from : « Indian Legends of Vancouver Island » by Alfred Carmichael
  • The figure at the base of the pictographic painting represents the mammoth whale upon whose back the whole creation rests.
  • Extract from : « Indian Legends of Vancouver Island » by Alfred Carmichael
  • The centre figure in the pictographic painting is a wolf grotesquely drawn.
  • Extract from : « Indian Legends of Vancouver Island » by Alfred Carmichael
  • The want of letters is thus, in a manner, supplied by signs and pictographic symbols.
  • Extract from : « Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers » by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • Finally, the schematic representation and notation of ideas so far as we can perceive was alphabetic rather than pictographic.
  • Extract from : « Men of the Old Stone Age » by Henry Fairfield Osborn
  • Pictographic messages are used whenever a certain norm or rule has to be observed.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • Recently, the assumption that Chinese writing is pictographic came under scrutiny.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • It ceased to be pictographic or ideographic; it became simply a pure sound-sign system, an alphabet.
  • Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
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