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Italic   /aɪtˈælɪk/   Listen
Italic

noun
(pl. italics)
1.
A style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right.
2.
A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative.  Synonym: Italic language.
3.
A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right.



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"Italic" Quotes from Famous Books



... said the rapid Nello, "else I have shaved the venerable Demetrio Calcondila to little purpose; but pardon me, I am lost in wonder: your Italian is better than his, though he has been in Italy forty years—better even than that of the accomplished Marullo, who may be said to have married the Italic Muse in more senses than one, since he has married our learned and ...
— Romola • George Eliot

... L., which I have placed in italic, is sufficient for our purpose; we ask no more. Nevertheless, I am willing to hear his views of the indications afforded by our anatomical character, which are, as will be seen, equally decisive in favor of ...
— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott

... Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed at Venice by Aldus in 1499; and a fine copy of Petrarch's Sonetti e Canzoni, on vellum, printed by Aldus in 1501, which formerly belonged to Isabella d'Este, wife of Gian-Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. This was the first Italian book printed in italic type. ...
— English Book Collectors • William Younger Fletcher

... errors repaired. In this text the oe-ligature is represented by brackets [oe]. Bold text is represented by and italic by . In addition, the text used / as ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... changes, the habits of the faithful, most of whom knew the psalms by heart. This first version is known as the Roman Psalter. It was soon deemed insufficient. St. Jerome once more set to work between 387 and 391, and published a second edition, more carefully and more extensively corrected, of the Italic version of the Psalms; it is called the Gallican Psalter, because it was adopted by the churches of Gaul. When he, later on, translated the Old Testament from the Hebrew, he published his third edition of the Psalms, the Hebraic Psalter. This version was a good one, but ...
— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley

... or Joanna Southcott.[196] Long hence, when the now current volumes of our journals are well-ransacked works of reference, those who look into them will be glad to see this {98} feature of our time: I therefore make a few extracts, faithfully copied as to type. The Italic is from the New Testament; the Roman is ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... high tariff, Rocky Mountains, The Bible, God, The Christian Era, Wednesday, in the summer, living in the South, turning south after taking a few steps to the east, one morning, O dark-haired Evening! italic ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever

... all names in Italic type; italicized passages put names in Roman type. To avoid ambiguity, these have been marked with *asterisks*. All verse ...
— Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) • William Wagstaffe

... When I apply the term Roman here and elsewhere to the inhabitants of the Italian towns, I wish to indicate the indigenous Italic populations molded by Roman rule into homogeneity. The resurgence of this population and its reattainment of intellectual consciousness by the recovery of past traditions and the rejection of foreign ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds



Words linked to "Italic" :   Italic language, Indo-European, face, Latin, italicize, longhand, fount, typeface, cursive, Indo-European language, cursive script, Indo-Hittite, font, italicise, running hand, Osco-Umbrian, case



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