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demotic
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 Demotic character , a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, from Greek demotikos "of or for the common people, in common use," from demos "common people," originally "district," from PIE *da-mo- "division," from root *da- "to divide" (see tide ). In contrast to hieratic . Originally of the simpler of two forms ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or for the common people. 2 Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing. 3 Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek. n. (context linguistics English) Language as spoken or written ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ When portraying factory scenes for advertisements in trade journals he would adopt a more straight forward, demotic style.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Demotic (from dēmotikós , "popular") is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta , and the stage of the Egyptian language written in this script, following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic . The term was ...
Usage examples of demotic.
Joyce, the Irish novelist, who worked miserably as a bank clerk in Rome in the 1900s, seems to have read Belli, whose vast sonnet-sequence, presenting realistically the demotic life of a great capital city, may be regarded as a kind of proto-Ulysses.
Let him in one evening, and he spent the whole night winking my demotic charnels, and don't even ask what else.
There on the unearthed basalt slab were three long neat rows of language carved one beside the other, in hieroglyphs and ancient demotic Egyptian and Greek, simultaneous translations of a legal statute from the XXXI Dynasty.
Then there were a few lines of demotic Egyptian, even more nearly impenetrable than that Latin.
Hieroglyphs engraved on a heavy slab of stone, no less, in Menelik's very own hand, with accompanying translations engraved beneath it in demotic Egyptian and ancient Greek.
And then he showed me some Egyptian hieratics and demotics and told me those were the same animals in disguise.
They had left written documents of all sorts, inscribed on papyrus or scraps of pottery, in the cursive hieratic script or the later, even more cursive, demotic.
He was a man with wild grey hair who spoke with a cultivated accent which made his demotic vocabulary seem affected, which, if he was, as he evidently was, one of Dr Wapenshaw's patients, being rehabilitated in the same modes as Hogg himself had been, if he really had been, it probably was.
He had even commissioned the very first grammar of the demotic tongue and made it compulsory in schools, because of the theory that learning grammar promotes logicality and would therefore curb the wild, irresponsible individualism of the Greeks.