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Demotic

noun
1.
A simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script.  Synonym: Demotic script.
2.
The modern Greek vernacular.  Synonym: Romaic.
adjective
1.
Of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
2.
Of or for the common people.  "Demotic speech" , "A poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"



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"Demotic" Quotes from Famous Books



... will be more and more abbreviated. Conventionality in signs largely consists in the form of abbreviation which is agreed upon. When the signs of the Indians have from ideographic form thus become demotic, they may be called conventional, but still not arbitrary. In them, as in all his actions, man had at the first a definite meaning or purpose, together with method in ...
— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery


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