Thesaurus: demotic

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1. a. Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
2. adj. of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use
3. n. a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
4. n. the modern Greek vernacular
5. adj. of or for the common people
6. Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or 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.
7. Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demoticalphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six orseven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other suchwritings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called alsoepistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial.
8. j:100 n. a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script a. of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use s. of or for the common people