a. [f. L. cuneāt-us CUNEATE + -IC. Cf. hieratic.] = CUNEATE, CUNEIFORM a.
1851. Layard, Pop. Acc. Discov. Nineveh, Introd. xi. The epithets of cuneiform, cuneatic, arrow-headed … have been assigned to it.
1874. Sayce, in Bibl. Arch. Soc. Trans., III. 465. At the beginning of cuneatic decipherment.
