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demotic

/dih-mot-ik/US // dɪˈmɒt ɪk //UK // (dɪˈmɒtɪk) //

非典型性,非典型性的,非典型肺炎,非物质文化遗产

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular: a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
    • : of or relating to the common people; popular.
    • : of, relating to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : demotic script.
    • : Also called Romaic. the Modern Greek vernacular.

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Examples

  • Anything but demotic is Amar Bhide's A Call For Judgment, subtitled "Sensible Finance For A Dynamic Economy."

  • The demotic self-deprecation barely masks a vast ambition, which is a kind of deception in itself, or an artifice.

  • An impatient lower court forced her to change it to the demotic “Gregorio,” noting that Venerdi was “a ridiculous name.”

  • In the more cursive or Hieratic writing the horned serpent appears as ; in the later Demotic as and .

  • They bore numerous inscriptions in hieroglyphics and the demotic character, wherefrom the clue was obtained as to their identity.

  • Of these demotic fragments a large quantity had been sent to the British Museum.

  • On another very marvellous narrative on a papyrus in the demotic character, see Brugsch, loc.

  • To the Greek characters were added six taken from the Demotic in order to express sounds peculiar to the Egyptian language.