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Webster 1913 Edition
Demotic
De-mot′ic
,Adj.
[Gr.
δημοτικός
, fr. δῆμοσ
the people: cf. F. démotique
.] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
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
.