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Demotic

noun
1.
A simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script.  Synonym: Demotic script.
2.
The modern Greek vernacular.  Synonym: Romaic.
adjective
1.
Of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
2.
Of or for the common people.  "Demotic speech" , "A poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"



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... but under the kings of the XXVIth dynasty the Book enjoyed a great vogue. Many funerary rolls were written both in hieroglyphs and hieratic, and were decorated with vignettes drawn in black outline; and about this time the scribes began to write funerary texts in the demotic character. But men no longer copied long selections from the PER-T EM HRU as they had done under the XVIIIth, XIXth and XXth dynasties, partly because the religious views of the Egyptians had undergone a great change, and partly ...
— The Book of the Dead • E. A. Wallis Budge
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... It is demotic—a style of Egyptian writing and a phase of the language which has perished from the knowledge of all men twenty-five hundred years before the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
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... form of writing, which consisted of rude pictures of objects which had a peculiar significance. Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters. Later came the demotic, which was a further departure from the old concrete form of representation, and had the advantage of being more readily written than either of the others.[1] These characters were used to inscribe the deeds of kings on monuments and tablets, and when in 1798 the ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar
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