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Definition of Glyptic
1. a. Of or pertaining to gem engraving.
Definition of Glyptic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to engraving, especially on precious stones. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glyptic
1. the art or process of engraving on gems [n -S]
Medical Definition of Glyptic
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1. Of or pertaining to gem engraving.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glyptic
Literary usage of Glyptic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1862)
"NOTICES OF COLLECTIONS OF glyptic ART EXHIBITED BY THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
IN JUNE, 1861. BY THE REV. CHARLES W. KING, 11.A., Senior Fellow of Trin. ..."
2. History of Art in Sardinia, Judæa, Syria, and Asia Minor by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1890)
"glyptic Art. The elaborate system of writing possessed by the Hittites induces the
... 2 With regard to these seals, see section on the glyptic art of the ..."
3. History of Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson (1881)
"Civilisation of the Period—Arts of Life. Architecture and glyptic Art—Changes in
the Religion, ... glyptic ..."
4. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"DECORATIVE, PICTORIAL AND glyptic ART THE decorative art of the Islanders is so
closely connected with that of the natives of the adjacent mainland of New ..."
5. The Art Teaching of John Ruskin by William Gershom Collingwood (1891)
"Plastic and glyptic.—Hitherto we have regarded Sculpture as an architectural
decoration, as indeed it is ; for its greatest works, the Elgin Marbles and the ..."
6. History of Art in Persia by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1892)
"glyptic ART. If many a data induce the belief that artists of Persian birth had
no hand in the sculptures we have just described, there are even greater ..."
7. History of Art in Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1894)
"... glyptic Art. Rude make and imperfect drawing are no sure guides in helping us
to single out those intaglios which by right ought to be ascribed to the ..."
8. Handbook of Engraved Gems by Charles William King (1885)
"they should have left unnoticed the inventor of the several processes employed
by the glyptic art. And this neglect is the more surprising, ..."
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