Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Kyriological \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}.]
Note: 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.