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Italic adj.

Relating to Italy or to its people.

Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.

Italic languages, the group or family of languages of ancient Italy.

Italic order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite.

Italic school, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated.

Italic version. See Itala.

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Etymology of 'Italic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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Words linked to "Italic" : Italic language, face, font, italicise, typeface, italicize, running hand, Osco-Umbrian, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European