demotic : Idioms & Phrases
Demotic alphabet ∨ 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 , andenchorial character . SeeEnchorial .
Webster 1913
demotic script
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noun a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
Demotic.
- Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek