What is "hieroglyphick"

Usage examples of "hieroglyphick".

Though he that considereth the plain cross24 upon the head of the owl in the Lateran obelisk, or the cross25 erected upon a pitcher diffusing streams of water into two basins, with sprinkling branches in them, and all described upon a two-footed Altar, as in the Hieroglyphicks of the brasen Table of Bembus .