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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Demotic \De*mot"ic\, a. [Gr. dhmotiko`s, fr. dh^mos the people:
cf. F. d['e]motique.]
Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Demotic \De*mot"ic\, a. [Gr. dhmotiko`s, fr. dh^mos the people:
cf. F. d['e]motique.]
Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
Demotic alphabet or 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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