demotic

• The kindness that Beveridge favoured was determinedly modern and demotic, caritas without the condescending coerciveness of Victorian philanthropy. —  Integral Options Cafe
• 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."
• Connoissuers of late 20th century demotic will be delighted by the thefts of phrase. —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Ordo Templi Orientis
• American demotic, and which served as a model for my own Clay Todd poems; his anthology, which doesn't really count; and a couple of books of his critical essays, some of which he datelined —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
• Rawlinson's version reads as follows Therefore, walk not away from the wisdom of Epiphanes, but turn and follow it; so shall it conduct thee to the temple's peace, and soften for thee the sorrows of life and the pains of death Here is another difficult text: [Figure 2 It is demotic--a style of Egyptian writing and a phase of the language which has perished from the knowledge of all men twenty-five hundred years before the Christian era Our red Indians have left many records, in the form of pictures, upon our crags and boulders. —  What Is Man? and Other Essays

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