1.an alphabetical script originally used for inscriptions in the Irish language from the 5th to the 10th centuries. 2.any of the 20 characters of this script. 3.an inscription in this script. —oghamist, ogamist,n. See also:Writing ...
Ulysses chapter 17 "The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic)." http://...