Demotic

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:59:05

De*mot"ic (?), a. [Gr. , fr. the people: cf. F. d'emotique.]

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.

Demotic alphabet or 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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