hieroglyphic vs penmanship

hieroglyphic

noun
  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

penmanship

noun
  • Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing. 

  • Synonym of handwriting, one's own style of writing. 

How often have the words hieroglyphic and penmanship occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )