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Definition of Enchorial
1. a. Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.
Definition of Enchorial
1. Adjective. Indigenous, native. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enchorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enchorial
Literary usage of Enchorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Baron Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1867)
"His acute mind was not contented with studying the enchorial inscription.
He contemplated also the deciphering of the hieroglyphic character, and applied to ..."
2. The Early History of Egypt, from the Old Testament, Herodotus, Manetho, and by Samuel Sharpe (1836)
"ON THE enchorial LANGUAGE. THE Rosetta Stone contains, beside the hieroglyphic
and Greek inscriptions, a third, in a language which is called in the Greek ..."
3. Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young by Thomas Young (1855)
"... AND enchorial NAMES. THE manner in which the Hieroglyphical alphabet was
employed, in the time of the Roman emperors, may be understood from the ..."
4. Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Museum of Hartwell House by John Lee (1858)
"In this compartment are two lines of enchorial writing. Each figure has some
hieroglyphics, and there is a dedication to Osiris above, and two lines of ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"The Egyptians employed different alphabets in writing—hieroglyphic, hieratic (used
by the priests) and enchorial (used for the common purposes of life, ..."
6. Prolegomena to Ancient History: Containing Part I.--The Interpretation of by John Pentland Mahaffy (1871)
"This was called Demotic, or enchorial, and was used for popular purposes.
mental purposes. This was the condition of things known to the Greeks ; and indeed ..."
7. An Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature, and by Thomas Young (1823)
"... J HIEROGLYPHICAL AND enchorial NAMES. THE manner in which the Hieroglyphical
alphabet was employed, in the time of the Roman emperors, may be understood ..."
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