Definition of demotic in English:

demotic

adjective dɪˈmɒtɪkdəˈmɑdɪk

1Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial.
（与）通俗语言（有关）的
a demotic idiom
通俗习惯用语。
Example sentencesExamples
- The demotic form of the encyclopedia poem is the scrapbook.
- If, as he says, the era of art is over, why not open up to the full chaotic, demotic range of contemporary visual culture?
- Basketry is the demotic craft par excellence.
- I can remember my sister using it in the late forties, and through such oral usage it must have been kept alive until a greater use of demotic language in the press and elsewhere in the eighties brought it to wider public notice.
- He, of course, would say that this is conversational and demotic.
- There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom.
- But rather than any symbology, it is the demotic, arbitrary nature of Miro's creativity, and the sense it creates of a violent stripping away, that is most impressive.
- At that point, it leached back into the wider culture, slightly altering the rhetoric, but not necessarily the essential substance, of demotic antiscience.
- Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho.
- Life has been hard on successive waves of poets who believed, before the 1960s, that they were demotic, non-moralistic, empirical, technophile, modern, etc.
- Brooklyn belongs to a genre characterized by less sophistication, less complex melody and harmony, more demotic language, looser rhyming, in-your-face attitudes, and rampant reiteration.
- His powerfully demotic designs helped pave the way for the egalitarian suburban landscape most Americans choose to live in today.
- Finch and Varnes's brief is broad and inclusively demotic.
- Handwriting and handwritten documents have become as a result increasingly demotic and spelling and grammar in personal letters appear to be increasingly seen as personal matters.
- The novel, written like Dillon's previous work in vivid demotic style, is a celebration of women.
Synonyms
popular
vernacular, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar, common
informal, everyday, non-literary, unofficial, slangy
rare enchorial
1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing.
  （与）现代希腊语（有关）的。比较KATHAREVOUSA
  Compare with katharevousa
  Example sentencesExamples
  The truth is that Doric is simply in speech the vernacular and in writing the demotic.
  There he became interested in the differences between classical and demotic Greek.
  In 1967 demotic Greek was recognized as the official spoken and written language of Greece and is the language adopted for liturgical services by the Greek Orthodox church in the United States.
  Seferis extended the use of demotic Greek in poetry and expressed themes of exile and historical fragmentation in more personal ways, making his poems attractive to Greek readers as well as foreigners.
  Nearly all his works are based on carefully selected melodies from oral tradition, as well as from publications of Greek folk dances and demotic songs.
  Katharevousa was used for most state documents, in many newspapers, and in secondary school instruction until the 1970s but has been displaced by demotic Greek since that time.
  The demotic form is used in everyday conversation, and varies by region.
  Like all European nations at the dawn of modern nationalism, Greece was not even sure of its language, and Greeks experimented with both a synthetic ‘purified’ tongue and demotic speech.
2. 1.2 Relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c.650 BC and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period.
  （与）古埃及通俗文字（有关）的。比较HIERATIC
  Compare with hieratic
  Example sentencesExamples
  Internally, an increasing number of Greek and demotic Egyptian papyri illuminate a developing bureaucracy and control of the population through a tax system based on a census and land-survey.
  Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules.
  It was the stone that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs as it had translations in of ancient text in Egyptian demotic script, Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
  The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
  The stone, as you probably know, is inscribed with three forms of writing: Greek, hieroglyphic, and a less ornate, demotic form of Egyptian.
  The separation of contemporary Egypt from its past was compounded by the fact that Coptic was written in Greek letters with a few demotic signs.

noun dɪˈmɒtɪkdəˈmɑdɪk

mass noun

1Ordinary colloquial speech.
通俗口语
he blinked in mild surprise at this uncharacteristic leap into the demotic
Example sentencesExamples
- However, I have been to a church service here… it's interesting that the tone of the service is distinctly different from the demotic.
- Consider how rare it now is for anyone to conceive a project like this - something that wants to be both canonical and demotic.
- One of the things that you can do in culture, and specifically poetic discourse, is bring what's allegedly high philosophic discourse to bump up against the demotic, or everyday kind of speech.
- I think there is a place for the demotic, and many instances where a ‘crude’ word or phrase is the mot juste.
- To be fair, at the end, she unwound a little and started talking a more natural Estuary demotic which was much more appealing.
- There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic.
- ‘Chaucer would have thoroughly absorbed the language of the streets, that rich polyglot mixture of Latin patois, Anglo-Norman phraseology and English demotic,’ he writes.
- He may have been a public school boy, but he was also a bit of a lad, a latter-day artful dodger who spoke in a wised-up, street-smart demotic.
- The first revival was predominantly middle class in its character and personnel; the second was demotic, with little time for genteel sensibilities.
- Other wordplay directed humorously is less successful: the author mixes highly esoteric words with the demotic in a way that unintentionally sets up the more casual phrases to disappoint the reader.
- The story-telling is engaging, the scholarship is carried off gracefully and unobtrusively and the writing is nicely poised between the demotic and the baroque.
- I sat beside him, silently watching as he scribbled the little symbols of demotic down.
- The power of the demotic gives his book a special charge not shared by other such compilations.
- His accent lends itself to the Glaswegian demotic, to ‘haw’ and ‘bam’.
- On the level of language, Rushdie translates Hindi and Urdu demotic speech patterns freely into English and inflects the language of his characters with dialect patterns particular to the class, region, or community they belong to.
- The demotic and the democratic voices are the same.
- It not only meant seeking ways to bridge the chasm between dance and theatre, but also to resolve the divide between high and low art, the refined and the demotic.
- Scots as a poetic language may be synthetic to an extent, but its enduring power lies in the thrill of the demotic, making things stranger and somehow more real.
- Ultimately, few readers will be swayed by talk of the stylistic devices, the literary control, and the voice that switches from scientific to poetic to demotic and essayistic with astonishing ease and confidence.
- The working-class demotic in which the novel is narrated is a highly literary construct, just like the Glaswegian dialect of James Kelman, but this takes nothing away from the book's compassion or bruising emotional force.
1. 1.1 Demotic Greek.
  通俗希腊语
  Example sentencesExamples
  He did it moreover, not in the literary language of his court, Persian, but in the domestic demotic of his family, Chagatay Turkish.
  In the matter of the book at hand and its rhythmic proportions, we must remember that ancient epic in the time of Homer was chanted, not read, and that its rhythms were those of the demotic.
  The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics.
2. 1.2 Demotic Egyptian script.
  通俗埃及文字
  Example sentencesExamples
  The last form was called demotic - or running script by some.
  One of the officer present, a Lieutenant Bouchard, who had trained in archaeology, identified the three bands of scripts as hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek.
  The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek.

Origin

Early 19th century (in the sense 'relating to the Egyptian demotic'): from Greek dēmotikos 'popular', from dēmotēs 'one of the people', from dēmos 'the people'.

Rhymes

abiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, despotic, erotic, exotic, homoerotic, hypnotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic, zymotic

Definition of demotic in US English:

demotic

adjectivedəˈmɑdɪkdəˈmädik

1Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; popular or colloquial.
（与）通俗语言（有关）的
a demotic idiom
通俗习惯用语。
Example sentencesExamples
- Brooklyn belongs to a genre characterized by less sophistication, less complex melody and harmony, more demotic language, looser rhyming, in-your-face attitudes, and rampant reiteration.
- The novel, written like Dillon's previous work in vivid demotic style, is a celebration of women.
- Basketry is the demotic craft par excellence.
- At that point, it leached back into the wider culture, slightly altering the rhetoric, but not necessarily the essential substance, of demotic antiscience.
- But rather than any symbology, it is the demotic, arbitrary nature of Miro's creativity, and the sense it creates of a violent stripping away, that is most impressive.
- Life has been hard on successive waves of poets who believed, before the 1960s, that they were demotic, non-moralistic, empirical, technophile, modern, etc.
- Finch and Varnes's brief is broad and inclusively demotic.
- If, as he says, the era of art is over, why not open up to the full chaotic, demotic range of contemporary visual culture?
- The demotic form of the encyclopedia poem is the scrapbook.
- I can remember my sister using it in the late forties, and through such oral usage it must have been kept alive until a greater use of demotic language in the press and elsewhere in the eighties brought it to wider public notice.
- His powerfully demotic designs helped pave the way for the egalitarian suburban landscape most Americans choose to live in today.
- Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho.
- There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom.
- He, of course, would say that this is conversational and demotic.
- Handwriting and handwritten documents have become as a result increasingly demotic and spelling and grammar in personal letters appear to be increasingly seen as personal matters.
Synonyms
popular
1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing.
  （与）现代希腊语（有关）的。比较KATHAREVOUSA
  Compare with katharevousa
  Example sentencesExamples
  Seferis extended the use of demotic Greek in poetry and expressed themes of exile and historical fragmentation in more personal ways, making his poems attractive to Greek readers as well as foreigners.
  Nearly all his works are based on carefully selected melodies from oral tradition, as well as from publications of Greek folk dances and demotic songs.
  The demotic form is used in everyday conversation, and varies by region.
  There he became interested in the differences between classical and demotic Greek.
  In 1967 demotic Greek was recognized as the official spoken and written language of Greece and is the language adopted for liturgical services by the Greek Orthodox church in the United States.
  Like all European nations at the dawn of modern nationalism, Greece was not even sure of its language, and Greeks experimented with both a synthetic ‘purified’ tongue and demotic speech.
  The truth is that Doric is simply in speech the vernacular and in writing the demotic.
  Katharevousa was used for most state documents, in many newspapers, and in secondary school instruction until the 1970s but has been displaced by demotic Greek since that time.
2. 1.2 Relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c.650 BC and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period.
  （与）古埃及通俗文字（有关）的。比较HIERATIC
  Compare with hieratic
  Example sentencesExamples
  The stone, as you probably know, is inscribed with three forms of writing: Greek, hieroglyphic, and a less ornate, demotic form of Egyptian.
  It was the stone that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs as it had translations in of ancient text in Egyptian demotic script, Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
  Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules.
  Internally, an increasing number of Greek and demotic Egyptian papyri illuminate a developing bureaucracy and control of the population through a tax system based on a census and land-survey.
  The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
  The separation of contemporary Egypt from its past was compounded by the fact that Coptic was written in Greek letters with a few demotic signs.

noundəˈmɑdɪkdəˈmädik

1Ordinary colloquial speech.
通俗口语
Example sentencesExamples
- The story-telling is engaging, the scholarship is carried off gracefully and unobtrusively and the writing is nicely poised between the demotic and the baroque.
- Scots as a poetic language may be synthetic to an extent, but its enduring power lies in the thrill of the demotic, making things stranger and somehow more real.
- The first revival was predominantly middle class in its character and personnel; the second was demotic, with little time for genteel sensibilities.
- The working-class demotic in which the novel is narrated is a highly literary construct, just like the Glaswegian dialect of James Kelman, but this takes nothing away from the book's compassion or bruising emotional force.
- His accent lends itself to the Glaswegian demotic, to ‘haw’ and ‘bam’.
- He may have been a public school boy, but he was also a bit of a lad, a latter-day artful dodger who spoke in a wised-up, street-smart demotic.
- Other wordplay directed humorously is less successful: the author mixes highly esoteric words with the demotic in a way that unintentionally sets up the more casual phrases to disappoint the reader.
- To be fair, at the end, she unwound a little and started talking a more natural Estuary demotic which was much more appealing.
- There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic.
- However, I have been to a church service here… it's interesting that the tone of the service is distinctly different from the demotic.
- Ultimately, few readers will be swayed by talk of the stylistic devices, the literary control, and the voice that switches from scientific to poetic to demotic and essayistic with astonishing ease and confidence.
- The power of the demotic gives his book a special charge not shared by other such compilations.
- ‘Chaucer would have thoroughly absorbed the language of the streets, that rich polyglot mixture of Latin patois, Anglo-Norman phraseology and English demotic,’ he writes.
- One of the things that you can do in culture, and specifically poetic discourse, is bring what's allegedly high philosophic discourse to bump up against the demotic, or everyday kind of speech.
- On the level of language, Rushdie translates Hindi and Urdu demotic speech patterns freely into English and inflects the language of his characters with dialect patterns particular to the class, region, or community they belong to.
- I sat beside him, silently watching as he scribbled the little symbols of demotic down.
- The demotic and the democratic voices are the same.
- I think there is a place for the demotic, and many instances where a ‘crude’ word or phrase is the mot juste.
- Consider how rare it now is for anyone to conceive a project like this - something that wants to be both canonical and demotic.
- It not only meant seeking ways to bridge the chasm between dance and theatre, but also to resolve the divide between high and low art, the refined and the demotic.
1. 1.1 Demotic Greek.
  通俗希腊语
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the matter of the book at hand and its rhythmic proportions, we must remember that ancient epic in the time of Homer was chanted, not read, and that its rhythms were those of the demotic.
  The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics.
  He did it moreover, not in the literary language of his court, Persian, but in the domestic demotic of his family, Chagatay Turkish.
2. 1.2 Demotic Egyptian script.
  通俗埃及文字
  Example sentencesExamples
  The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek.
  The last form was called demotic - or running script by some.
  One of the officer present, a Lieutenant Bouchard, who had trained in archaeology, identified the three bands of scripts as hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek.

Origin

Early 19th century (in the sense ‘relating to the Egyptian demotic’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular’, from dēmotēs ‘one of the people’, from dēmos ‘the people’.

单词	demotic
释义	Definition of demotic in English: demotic adjective dɪˈmɒtɪkdəˈmɑdɪk 1Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial. （与）通俗语言（有关）的 a demotic idiom 通俗习惯用语。 Example sentencesExamples The demotic form of the encyclopedia poem is the scrapbook. If, as he says, the era of art is over, why not open up to the full chaotic, demotic range of contemporary visual culture? Basketry is the demotic craft par excellence. I can remember my sister using it in the late forties, and through such oral usage it must have been kept alive until a greater use of demotic language in the press and elsewhere in the eighties brought it to wider public notice. He, of course, would say that this is conversational and demotic. There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom. But rather than any symbology, it is the demotic, arbitrary nature of Miro's creativity, and the sense it creates of a violent stripping away, that is most impressive. At that point, it leached back into the wider culture, slightly altering the rhetoric, but not necessarily the essential substance, of demotic antiscience. Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho. Life has been hard on successive waves of poets who believed, before the 1960s, that they were demotic, non-moralistic, empirical, technophile, modern, etc. Brooklyn belongs to a genre characterized by less sophistication, less complex melody and harmony, more demotic language, looser rhyming, in-your-face attitudes, and rampant reiteration. His powerfully demotic designs helped pave the way for the egalitarian suburban landscape most Americans choose to live in today. Finch and Varnes's brief is broad and inclusively demotic. Handwriting and handwritten documents have become as a result increasingly demotic and spelling and grammar in personal letters appear to be increasingly seen as personal matters. The novel, written like Dillon's previous work in vivid demotic style, is a celebration of women. Synonyms popular vernacular, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar, common informal, everyday, non-literary, unofficial, slangy rare enchorial 1.1 Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. （与）现代希腊语（有关）的。比较KATHAREVOUSA Compare with katharevousa Example sentencesExamples The truth is that Doric is simply in speech the vernacular and in writing the demotic. There he became interested in the differences between classical and demotic Greek. In 1967 demotic Greek was recognized as the official spoken and written language of Greece and is the language adopted for liturgical services by the Greek Orthodox church in the United States. Seferis extended the use of demotic Greek in poetry and expressed themes of exile and historical fragmentation in more personal ways, making his poems attractive to Greek readers as well as foreigners. Nearly all his works are based on carefully selected melodies from oral tradition, as well as from publications of Greek folk dances and demotic songs. Katharevousa was used for most state documents, in many newspapers, and in secondary school instruction until the 1970s but has been displaced by demotic Greek since that time. The demotic form is used in everyday conversation, and varies by region. Like all European nations at the dawn of modern nationalism, Greece was not even sure of its language, and Greeks experimented with both a synthetic ‘purified’ tongue and demotic speech. 1.2 Relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c.650 BC and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period. （与）古埃及通俗文字（有关）的。比较HIERATIC Compare with hieratic Example sentencesExamples Internally, an increasing number of Greek and demotic Egyptian papyri illuminate a developing bureaucracy and control of the population through a tax system based on a census and land-survey. Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules. It was the stone that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs as it had translations in of ancient text in Egyptian demotic script, Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD. The stone, as you probably know, is inscribed with three forms of writing: Greek, hieroglyphic, and a less ornate, demotic form of Egyptian. The separation of contemporary Egypt from its past was compounded by the fact that Coptic was written in Greek letters with a few demotic signs. noun dɪˈmɒtɪkdəˈmɑdɪk mass noun 1Ordinary colloquial speech. 通俗口语 he blinked in mild surprise at this uncharacteristic leap into the demotic Example sentencesExamples However, I have been to a church service here… it's interesting that the tone of the service is distinctly different from the demotic. Consider how rare it now is for anyone to conceive a project like this - something that wants to be both canonical and demotic. One of the things that you can do in culture, and specifically poetic discourse, is bring what's allegedly high philosophic discourse to bump up against the demotic, or everyday kind of speech. I think there is a place for the demotic, and many instances where a ‘crude’ word or phrase is the mot juste. To be fair, at the end, she unwound a little and started talking a more natural Estuary demotic which was much more appealing. There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic. ‘Chaucer would have thoroughly absorbed the language of the streets, that rich polyglot mixture of Latin patois, Anglo-Norman phraseology and English demotic,’ he writes. He may have been a public school boy, but he was also a bit of a lad, a latter-day artful dodger who spoke in a wised-up, street-smart demotic. The first revival was predominantly middle class in its character and personnel; the second was demotic, with little time for genteel sensibilities. Other wordplay directed humorously is less successful: the author mixes highly esoteric words with the demotic in a way that unintentionally sets up the more casual phrases to disappoint the reader. The story-telling is engaging, the scholarship is carried off gracefully and unobtrusively and the writing is nicely poised between the demotic and the baroque. I sat beside him, silently watching as he scribbled the little symbols of demotic down. The power of the demotic gives his book a special charge not shared by other such compilations. His accent lends itself to the Glaswegian demotic, to ‘haw’ and ‘bam’. On the level of language, Rushdie translates Hindi and Urdu demotic speech patterns freely into English and inflects the language of his characters with dialect patterns particular to the class, region, or community they belong to. The demotic and the democratic voices are the same. It not only meant seeking ways to bridge the chasm between dance and theatre, but also to resolve the divide between high and low art, the refined and the demotic. Scots as a poetic language may be synthetic to an extent, but its enduring power lies in the thrill of the demotic, making things stranger and somehow more real. Ultimately, few readers will be swayed by talk of the stylistic devices, the literary control, and the voice that switches from scientific to poetic to demotic and essayistic with astonishing ease and confidence. The working-class demotic in which the novel is narrated is a highly literary construct, just like the Glaswegian dialect of James Kelman, but this takes nothing away from the book's compassion or bruising emotional force. 1.1 Demotic Greek. 通俗希腊语 Example sentencesExamples He did it moreover, not in the literary language of his court, Persian, but in the domestic demotic of his family, Chagatay Turkish. In the matter of the book at hand and its rhythmic proportions, we must remember that ancient epic in the time of Homer was chanted, not read, and that its rhythms were those of the demotic. The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics. 1.2 Demotic Egyptian script. 通俗埃及文字 Example sentencesExamples The last form was called demotic - or running script by some. One of the officer present, a Lieutenant Bouchard, who had trained in archaeology, identified the three bands of scripts as hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek. The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek. Origin Early 19th century (in the sense 'relating to the Egyptian demotic'): from Greek dēmotikos 'popular', from dēmotēs 'one of the people', from dēmos 'the people'. Rhymes abiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, despotic, erotic, exotic, homoerotic, hypnotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic, zymotic Definition of demotic in US English: demotic adjectivedəˈmɑdɪkdəˈmädik 1Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; popular or colloquial. （与）通俗语言（有关）的 a demotic idiom 通俗习惯用语。 Example sentencesExamples Brooklyn belongs to a genre characterized by less sophistication, less complex melody and harmony, more demotic language, looser rhyming, in-your-face attitudes, and rampant reiteration. The novel, written like Dillon's previous work in vivid demotic style, is a celebration of women. Basketry is the demotic craft par excellence. At that point, it leached back into the wider culture, slightly altering the rhetoric, but not necessarily the essential substance, of demotic antiscience. But rather than any symbology, it is the demotic, arbitrary nature of Miro's creativity, and the sense it creates of a violent stripping away, that is most impressive. Life has been hard on successive waves of poets who believed, before the 1960s, that they were demotic, non-moralistic, empirical, technophile, modern, etc. Finch and Varnes's brief is broad and inclusively demotic. If, as he says, the era of art is over, why not open up to the full chaotic, demotic range of contemporary visual culture? The demotic form of the encyclopedia poem is the scrapbook. I can remember my sister using it in the late forties, and through such oral usage it must have been kept alive until a greater use of demotic language in the press and elsewhere in the eighties brought it to wider public notice. His powerfully demotic designs helped pave the way for the egalitarian suburban landscape most Americans choose to live in today. Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho. There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom. He, of course, would say that this is conversational and demotic. Handwriting and handwritten documents have become as a result increasingly demotic and spelling and grammar in personal letters appear to be increasingly seen as personal matters. Synonyms popular 1.1 Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. （与）现代希腊语（有关）的。比较KATHAREVOUSA Compare with katharevousa Example sentencesExamples Seferis extended the use of demotic Greek in poetry and expressed themes of exile and historical fragmentation in more personal ways, making his poems attractive to Greek readers as well as foreigners. Nearly all his works are based on carefully selected melodies from oral tradition, as well as from publications of Greek folk dances and demotic songs. The demotic form is used in everyday conversation, and varies by region. There he became interested in the differences between classical and demotic Greek. In 1967 demotic Greek was recognized as the official spoken and written language of Greece and is the language adopted for liturgical services by the Greek Orthodox church in the United States. Like all European nations at the dawn of modern nationalism, Greece was not even sure of its language, and Greeks experimented with both a synthetic ‘purified’ tongue and demotic speech. The truth is that Doric is simply in speech the vernacular and in writing the demotic. Katharevousa was used for most state documents, in many newspapers, and in secondary school instruction until the 1970s but has been displaced by demotic Greek since that time. 1.2 Relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c.650 BC and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period. （与）古埃及通俗文字（有关）的。比较HIERATIC Compare with hieratic Example sentencesExamples The stone, as you probably know, is inscribed with three forms of writing: Greek, hieroglyphic, and a less ornate, demotic form of Egyptian. It was the stone that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs as it had translations in of ancient text in Egyptian demotic script, Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules. Internally, an increasing number of Greek and demotic Egyptian papyri illuminate a developing bureaucracy and control of the population through a tax system based on a census and land-survey. The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD. The separation of contemporary Egypt from its past was compounded by the fact that Coptic was written in Greek letters with a few demotic signs. noundəˈmɑdɪkdəˈmädik 1Ordinary colloquial speech. 通俗口语 Example sentencesExamples The story-telling is engaging, the scholarship is carried off gracefully and unobtrusively and the writing is nicely poised between the demotic and the baroque. Scots as a poetic language may be synthetic to an extent, but its enduring power lies in the thrill of the demotic, making things stranger and somehow more real. The first revival was predominantly middle class in its character and personnel; the second was demotic, with little time for genteel sensibilities. The working-class demotic in which the novel is narrated is a highly literary construct, just like the Glaswegian dialect of James Kelman, but this takes nothing away from the book's compassion or bruising emotional force. His accent lends itself to the Glaswegian demotic, to ‘haw’ and ‘bam’. He may have been a public school boy, but he was also a bit of a lad, a latter-day artful dodger who spoke in a wised-up, street-smart demotic. Other wordplay directed humorously is less successful: the author mixes highly esoteric words with the demotic in a way that unintentionally sets up the more casual phrases to disappoint the reader. To be fair, at the end, she unwound a little and started talking a more natural Estuary demotic which was much more appealing. There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic. However, I have been to a church service here… it's interesting that the tone of the service is distinctly different from the demotic. Ultimately, few readers will be swayed by talk of the stylistic devices, the literary control, and the voice that switches from scientific to poetic to demotic and essayistic with astonishing ease and confidence. The power of the demotic gives his book a special charge not shared by other such compilations. ‘Chaucer would have thoroughly absorbed the language of the streets, that rich polyglot mixture of Latin patois, Anglo-Norman phraseology and English demotic,’ he writes. One of the things that you can do in culture, and specifically poetic discourse, is bring what's allegedly high philosophic discourse to bump up against the demotic, or everyday kind of speech. On the level of language, Rushdie translates Hindi and Urdu demotic speech patterns freely into English and inflects the language of his characters with dialect patterns particular to the class, region, or community they belong to. I sat beside him, silently watching as he scribbled the little symbols of demotic down. The demotic and the democratic voices are the same. I think there is a place for the demotic, and many instances where a ‘crude’ word or phrase is the mot juste. Consider how rare it now is for anyone to conceive a project like this - something that wants to be both canonical and demotic. It not only meant seeking ways to bridge the chasm between dance and theatre, but also to resolve the divide between high and low art, the refined and the demotic. 1.1 Demotic Greek. 通俗希腊语 Example sentencesExamples In the matter of the book at hand and its rhythmic proportions, we must remember that ancient epic in the time of Homer was chanted, not read, and that its rhythms were those of the demotic. The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics. He did it moreover, not in the literary language of his court, Persian, but in the domestic demotic of his family, Chagatay Turkish. 1.2 Demotic Egyptian script. 通俗埃及文字 Example sentencesExamples The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek. The last form was called demotic - or running script by some. One of the officer present, a Lieutenant Bouchard, who had trained in archaeology, identified the three bands of scripts as hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek. Origin Early 19th century (in the sense ‘relating to the Egyptian demotic’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular’, from dēmotēs ‘one of the people’, from dēmos ‘the people’.
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