Kyr'i-o-lōg'ie or Kyr'i-o-lōg'ie-al, a.

a. [Gr. κυριολογικός, speaking or describing literally or properly, from κύριος, proper, strict, literal, and λόγος, speech, discourse.] Serving perfectly 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.

☞— The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to designate those of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part only is written, being put conventionally for the whole.