Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art of engraving or carving, especially on precious stones; glyptography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of carving or engraving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of engraving on precious stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art of
engraving onprecious stones .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the art of engraving on precious stones
Etymologies
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Examples
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The art of the lapidary, or science of glyptics, is a most interesting study, and it would be a mistake not to consider it for a few moments on its technical side.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Vasari speaks with characteristic enthusiasm of the glyptics of the Greeks, "whose works in that manner may be called divine."
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Constantinople was the only place where glyptics were understood and practised upon large hard stones in the early
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Theophilus on glyptics is too delightfully naïve for us to resist quoting his remarks.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Such are heraldry, or armorial science; glyptics, which deals with engraved stones; ceramics, or the study of pottery in all its epochs.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The same specialist in Oriental glyptics, says: "The efforts of some learned men to discover traces of a reciprocal influence have been fruitless.
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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