demotic : Idioms & Phrases


Demotic alphabetcharacter

  • 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.
Webster 1913

demotic script

  • noun a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
    Demotic.
    • Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek
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