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demotic(dictionary)

demotic (iou)



demotic adjective & noun. E19.
[Greek demotikos popular, from demotes one of the people, formed as DEMOS: see -OT2, -IC.]
A. adjective.
1. a. Designating or pertaining to the popular simplified form of Egyptian hieroglyphic script. Opp. hieratic. E19.
b. Designating or pertaining to a form of modern Greek based on popular speech. E20.
2. gen. Of or pertaining to the common people; popular, vulgar. M19.
Listener Advertising has..to use simple, forceful, easily understandable words'demotic' language. M. Stott Perhaps..we shall, like the Chinese, have some kind of demotic English and some kind of Mandarin?
B. noun. Demotic language; demotic script. E20.
demoticist noun a student of demotic script E20.