italic languages

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italic languages - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Italic \I*tal"ic\, a. [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf.
     Italian.]
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     1. Relating to Italy or to its people.
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     2. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters
        do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so
        called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the
        inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
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     Italic languages, the group or family of languages of
        ancient Italy.
  
     Italic order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite.
        
  
     Italic school, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic
        philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were
        first promulgated.
  
     Italic version. See Itala.
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