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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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

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