The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Demotic \De*mot"ic\, a. [Gr. dhmotiko`s, fr. dh^mos the people:
   cf. F. d['e]motique.]
   Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
   [1913 Webster]

   Demotic alphabet or Demotic character, 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.
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