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Demotic  adj.  Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
Demotic alphabet or Demotic character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial.





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... DEMOTIC (Gr. [Greek: dmotikos], of or belonging to the people), a term, meaning popular, specially applied to that cursive script of the ancient Egyptian language used for business and literary purposes,—for the people. It is opposed to ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various


Words linked to "Demotic" :   romaic, hieratic script, New Greek, hieratic


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