Crossword-Solution: DEMOTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Demotic | a. | Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “DEMOTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| GREEK, of the popular form of modern | 1 answer |
| Relating o common people | 1 answer |
| COMMON people (pert. to) | 2 answers |
| Modern Greek vernacular | 2 answers |
| Of ordinary people | 2 answers |
| of the common people | 2 answers |
| people pertaining to | 2 answers |
| pertaining to people | 2 answers |
| Everyday speech of the people | 3 answers |
| ROSETTA stone script/text language | 3 answers |
| PEOPLE (pert. to) | 5 answers |
| idiomatic | 11 answers |
| colloquial | 17 answers |
| Vernacular | 22 answers |
| Popular | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEMOTIC (5)
Here is another difficult text: (Figure 2) It is demotic—a style of Egyptian writing and a phase of the language which had perished from the knowledge of all men twenty-five hundred years before the Christian era.
Here his researches upon the spectra of the metals had won him his fellowship in the Royal Society; but again he played the coquette with his subject, and after a year’s absence from the laboratory he joined the Oriental Society, and delivered a paper on the Hieroglyphic and Demotic inscriptions of El Kab, thus giving a crowning example both of the versatility and of the inconstancy of his talents.
Good-bye, ‘Mafish Fineesh,’ as Ali Baba always said.” In due course, my friend, the writer of the letter from which I have quoted, arrived in London, and on the very next day we paid a visit to a learned acquaintance well versed in Hieroglyphics and Demotic writing.
Birch, who can fairly deal with a Demotic papyrus? Contrast the Société Anthropologique and its palace and professors in Paris with our “Institute” au second in a corner of Hanover Square and its skulls in the cellar! [FN#209] Art.
Scarabs were his sacred playthings, and by the time of his going to school he was able to write letters home in a demotic which would not perhaps have satisfied Champollion or Brugsch, but yet was sufficiently marvellous to his schoolfellows and gratifying to his father.
Quotes with DEMOTIC (2)
I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgotten pagan godlings, or in preferring the nasal whine and the revivalist shoutin' to solid sense and learning, regarding intellect as positively inimical to the workings of the Holy Ghost. But it is in American religious life, especially Protestant American religious life, that things bottom out completely.
With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1986–2007).