demotic entertainments. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms. From Dictionary.com.
Depictions of women in demotic song largely reflected the harshness of rural life and the specific predicament of women within its social and economic structure. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
The word, which means "of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing," is spelled "demotic" - without the "k.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
In the late period an even more cursive writing came into use, called demotic, or popular writing. From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture] Reference
In the 8th century there was a further abridgment of the hieratic writing, which was called the demotic, or people's writing, and was used in commerce. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
11The female warrior figure in demotic verse has a longer tradition, however, and can be traced to female warriors in ancient and Byzantine Greek myth. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
The same words on the stone were repeated in Egyptian hieroglyphics, in a cursive form of hieroglyphics called "demotic," and in Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Aramaic and demotic Greek are totally different languages. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Harold Bloom] Reference
Of these demotic fragments a large quantity had been sent to the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Metanastefsi kai Demotiko Tragoudi (Migration and demotic song). From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
Few writers have made such profound art out of their annoyance with the demotic. From Wordnik.com. [New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis] Reference
Not since Mark Twain had an American writer handled the demotic with such verve. From Wordnik.com. [Bellow's Gift] Reference
His voice was pure Chicago, wickedly demotic, taking on elites with glee and joust. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers] Reference
These papers were in two languages-Greek and demotic, or the popular language of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The erudition is dexterously deployed, with a heartening leaven of demotic obscenity. From Wordnik.com. [Cassocks and Codpieces] Reference
It holds an inscription, written in hieroglyphic, in demotic, and in Greek characters. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The characters used by the Egyptians were of three kinds -- hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
For a century, the posh and the demotic have jostled elbow-to-elbow in a seven-block-long arena. From Wordnik.com. [All Lit Up] Reference
The political and philosophical overlap between the demotic movement and the labour movement, created. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
Note 18: The demotic movement became fragmented as tensions between communists and nationalists deepened. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
Among the manuscripts are several Egyptian deeds, written on papyrus, in the demotic or enchorial character. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Uruguay, my native land, is held as fleetingly in my head as the demotic Spanish I once unconsciously spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Any Human Heart by William Boyd] Reference
'These wops have balls after all,' said Warren, whose Greek had now improved to the point of becoming demotic. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
'Pack up your troubles' would once have been considered demotic at an event like this and rings the wrong note. From Wordnik.com. [The Thames Valley...] Reference
He has been a director of a balletic school that of Stara Zagora the ballet, to demotic оpera toJambol theater. From Wordnik.com. [Ballet Izisa in Youth home" George Bratanov"] Reference
A lord of the language, Auden left England, that country where no one was well, and journeyed to demotic America. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at Home] Reference
The result was the introduction of demotic Greek (demotiki) as the language of instruction in all elementary schools. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
Gillespie's generation brought the modernist esthetic to jazz: a once demotic music suddenly bristled with difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz's Last Hero Trumpeter] Reference
'Sidge', on the other hand, could be cuneiform, and 'Tun' and 'Val' are probably calligraphically drifted from demotic. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
Not only the light and salt of Antillean mountains defied this, but the demotic vigour and variety of their inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture] Reference
I think it's undeniable that plays and players embody something uniquely demotic and uniquely English about our literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Class Pyramid Of British Literature] Reference
Darius I (521485) certainly treated the Egyptians with respect and had Egyptian law codified, both in demotic and Aramaic. From Wordnik.com. [f. The Late Dynastic Period (25th-31st Dynasties)] Reference
Isaac Singer, who wrote for the Daily Forward, and who feels like a ur-blogger to me, would have loved its demotic immediacy. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Do We Need Another Place to Kvetch? More Than You Realize] Reference
Indeed, his elegant lifestyle and cultivated manners were a handicap to him in a movement increasingly dominated by the demotic. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Promise] Reference
Indeed, Imvrioti had become involved with communism as early as the mid-1920s through her involvement with the demotic movement. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
The main plank of these reforms was to legitimise and introduce the demotic idiom as the language of instruction in schools. back. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
It was invented at least as early as the ninth dynasty (4,240 years ago), and fell into disuse when the demotic had been introduced. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
But Leonard is often and justly praised for his mastery of the demotic, and the demotic would not be itself without this kind of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Cops and Robbers] Reference
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