Demotic alphabet

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.

See also: Demotic

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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