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Glyptic

Glyptic \Glyp"tic\, a. [See Glyph.]

  1. Of or pertaining to gem engraving.

  2. (Min.) Figured; marked as with figures.

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glyptic

a. Of or pertaining to engraving, especially on precious stones.

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Usage examples of "glyptic".

Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old, glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets.

The glyptic art of Greece had been paralleled hundreds of years before it was born.

He would not confine it to glyptic art, nor indeed to art alone--all the uses of life might be bettered by it.

Machinery, ribbed tubes, and plastic cables formed an untidy glyptic over most bulkheads.

And they'd believe that Alia, through some glyptic art, was reading a strange truth in these remains.