demotic alphabet

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demotic alphabet - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     Demotic alphabet or Demotic 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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