资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   {Demotic alphabet} or {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}.