En*cho"ri*al (?), En*chor"ic (?), a. [Gr. domestic, native; in + place, country.]

Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

 

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