| 单词 | demotic |
| 例句 | “Here Comes Trouble” is talky and vaguely ill composed, but Mr. Moore is in touch with the American demotic. Books of The Times: ?Here Comes Trouble? by Michael Moore - Book Review 2011-09-13T12:00:00Z His street photography of the early 1960s consists of fluent, if unexceptional, shots of a demotic New York: passengers on a ferry, apartment dwellers sitting in window sills, a painted sign for a Spanish-language church. Review: ‘Donald Blumberg Photographs,’ Observing America on the Streets and From the Sofa 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z His technical accomplishment is immense, and the quick-thinking, good-humoured demotic makes it all look easy and easygoing. Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z Of course, they've not entirely disappeared, but a different, more demotic and culturally sensitive sensibility now shapes public discourse. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z Lerner and Loewe's songs benefit from a freer, jazzier, more demotic delivery, and the quality suffers slightly as Eliza poshes up in the second half. Prom 2: My Fair Lady/John Wilson Orchestra – review 2012-07-15T13:25:08Z But it is not demotic; it is elitist. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z But it’s quintessentially Darkside, full of bruising, demotic grooves and vaporous delicacy. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z In time, these golden voices were swept away by more demotic ones, but they remained fondly remembered by many. Patricia Hughes 2013-02-24T13:50:55Z Its cocktail of catchy, demotic idiom and serene grief, together with the ordering of its four-in-one movements, paired well with the Mahler. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z But there has also been a different, parallel tradition about urban or, more particularly, suburban life, harsh demotic prose to the poetry of Weir, Schepisi, Beresford and Armstrong. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:24Z These cities are full of life, movie theaters and Walt Whitman’s demotic “blab of the pave.” Review | Poetry need not be a call to action, but ‘The Long Take’ is 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z This collection of linked stories, set on an unnamed Aegean island and featuring a cast of wry, rough-talking Greeks reeling from the country’s economic devastation, showcases Ikonomou’s wit, compassion and infallible ear for the demotic. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Often the journalist stands as Capra's token ordinary Joe, a symbol of the low-class intellectual, the would-be great writer downgraded to the demotic reporter. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z Reaction, Robin argues, is typically high theory as much as demotic practice. Why Haven’t Conservative Thinkers Denounced Trump? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “The language in these pages remains visceral, demotic, open to all comers and capable of neat aural effects,” Stephanie Burt writes in her review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But its various demotic touches – 'you know something?', 'don't get me wrong', 'anyway, you get the point' – should not be allowed to mislead. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The nature of such vision is demotic – ignoring social barriers like gender, class and ethnicity. William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z Many crime writers, notably Elmore Leonard, have found ways of updating the hard-boiled genre while retaining its vim and demotic panache. Review | Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman deliver a silly, fun pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Ironically, his songs are really too sophisticated to have become popular rallying-cries, and are too demotic in tone to have been taken seriously enough by the establishment which he anyway reviled. A guide to Cornelius Cardew's music 2012-12-17T15:48:17Z Her prose could be lush, or raw and demotic, or carefree and eccentric, often on a single page. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The urgent march in the finale, depicting the procession toward resurrection of "the great and the small, kings and beggars, righteous and godless," is a clearly deliberate essay in demotic vulgarity. Mahler's majesty a worthy farewell for SSO's Schwarz 2011-06-17T17:54:04Z Whatever his theme, his language could modulate from high formality to low demotic and back. Peter Porter: the ultimate conspiracy theorist 2010-04-27T11:58:00Z He excels, as in “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” still perhaps our greatest fable, when most connected to the demotic and the vernacular and to the painful truths of human existence. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In order to lash us to his own sickness-induced metaphors, he writes in as demotic an American idiom as possible: “like” as a filler, “w/r/t.” David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z Entirely resentful of the new world into which she is plunged, her truculence is expressed via a high school demotic. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z It’s been replaced by what Louis Menand describes as “a great river of pop, soulful, demotic, camp, performative, outrageous, over-the-top cultural goods”—in short, by pop culture. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The visceral reaction to Kelman – who won with a novel about urban deprivation, written in Glaswegian demotic – would suggest this. The unnoticed bias of the Booker prize 2012-07-27T11:37:12Z A poem titled “When at a Certain Party in NYC” has a bit of Philip Larkin’s demotic diction and subterranean id. 'Slant Six,' Erin Belieu’s Latest Poetry Collection 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z I am interested in language that hovers a little above the everyday spoken American demotic. Garth Greenwell on writing sex in his novel 'What Belongs to You' and the queer literary tradition 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z It is also “informal, demotic, vigorous and profane.” Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z I think it's undeniable that plays and players embody something uniquely demotic and uniquely English about our literature. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z A series of interconnected short narratives about a group of friends, “Trainspotting” is inventive, scurrilous, gloriously demotic and entirely itself. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z As ever favouring the demotic, Sellars had Owens as a lumbering janitor. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z Joyce clearly left his mark on Brenton – you can sense it in the earthy, demotic language of his early plays – but other influences were less helpful. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z A slab from the Roman era was also found with hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions, which may give more clues once restored. ‘Magnificent’ smiling sphinx of Roman emperor found at ancient Egypt site 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z She held grudges, and wrote about them using language more demotic than regal: “You’re an idiot and I hate your guts,” she sang on her song “Idiot,” from 2005. The Daughter of a King, and a Legacy of Tears 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z He would waffle in demotic English and then answer a charge with a quotation from Seneca. Perspective | Exit, Boris Johnson. Sort of — he’s still hogging the stage. 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Today’s readers, used to the twittering demotic of our age, may need to adjust to this titanic prose-poem’s leisurely, mandarin style. Review | Why ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ is worth reading today 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Gallagher’s “DeLuxe” is more refined, but it also registers loss — the loss of Black identity, the marginalization of Black culture — even as it dances around the demotic idiom of old-style magazines. Perspective | Ellen Gallagher takes printmaking to a spellbinding new level A number of the mummies were decorated with "demotic handwriting" — a form of ancient Egyptian script used by ordinary people. Amazing mummies discovery: Remains of dozens of people, including children, found in Egyptian tombs 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Some were decorated with “demotic handwriting” - a form of ancient Egyptian script used by ordinary people. Egypt discovers 40 mummies in ancient chambers in Minya 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Obsolete now is the modernist rhetoric of revolution that hailed Pablo Picasso’s shattering of pictorial form, Jackson Pollock’s expansive drip technique, and Andy Warhol’s artisanal proliferation of demotic imagery. The Once Radical Slashes of Lucio Fontana 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Animals have become entertainment, and must therefore bend to our will, adopt our demotic. Happy new year? Tell that to the natural world we are destroying | Philip Hoare 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Gallagher’s “DeLuxe” is more refined, but it also registers loss — the loss of Black identity, the marginalization of Black culture — even as it dances around the demotic idiom of old-style magazines. Perspective | Ellen Gallagher takes printmaking to a spellbinding new level It is precisely the instinctive, demotic appeal of color that has sometimes led to its being discounted as mere showmanship. Treasures from the Color Archive 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z If Mr. Trump is a harsh critic of American elites, Mr. Legutko plays that role, albeit with a less demotic style, in the European context. If America Is Divided, So Is Europe 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Labour's Mary Creagh suggested the foreign secretary's demotic dismissal of business concerns about post Brexit customs arrangements were an effective summary of the impact of a hard Brexit… a nice pithy point. Prime Minister's Questions: The verdict 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Nor the astonishing power of his language, the bold combinations of plain demotic speech and high rhetoric. Opinion | What Philip Roth wanted us to notice about his work 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z King added his own commentary, at once liturgical and demotic: The making of Martin Luther King’s speeches 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z His tone is as demotic as his verse is precise. The making of a Shakespearean actor 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In Catalonia on Sunday I saw something like a true demotic participation – and that should make the world, and the EU, think twice before dismissing the whole thing as a nationalist stunt. ‘We are with you Catalunya’ – the revolt in Spain is bigger than flags and language 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Trump’s demotic self-expression has always been part of the appeal. ‘This is like medicine to him’: why Trump still needs the love of the crowd 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z This year, Frances FitzGerald published “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America,” which traced today’s demotic, emotive evangelical politics back to the Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries. Opinion | When the evangelical life is trouble for the soul 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The new discovery also includes six sarcophagi, two clay coffins, two papyri written in demotic script as well as a number of vessels, he said. Archaeologists uncover 17 mummies in Egyptian necropolis 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z “The artist of American democracy,” Robert Hughes called him, “yearningly faithful to its clamour, its contradictions, its hope and its enormous demotic freedom.” Robert Rauschenberg and the subversive language of junk 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Shooting on foot or from the back of a car, Barba pans across Brutalist towers, filthy ribbon windows, demotic apartments festooned with graffiti. Rosa Barba examines the everyday chaos of São Paulo's 'giant earthworm' highway 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Not so in demotic New York, not even on the Upper East Side. A $50,000 Rent Check 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z One might have thought such an objective admirable, but in their sophistication contemporary linguists are keener on demotic than on elegant English. Death of a Word Man 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z His double-rootedness in demotic culture and in patrician sophistication brackets a social zone that he leaves void, anticipating polarized responses. The Satirical Oracle of Race and Class 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Translating the Greek helped lead to translating demotic which in turn led to translating hieroglyphics. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Their depiction of a demotic violent resistance that is spontaneous and unorganised, and with imitative elements, reflects assessments by many in Israel’s security establishment and by statements posted online by some attackers. What’s driving the young lone wolves who are stalking the streets of Israel? 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Finally, the 'Received Pronunciation' of the BBC's top announcers was replaced by the more demotic accents of our own correspondents, myself included. Today in Parliament at 70: Britain's 'longest-running soap opera' - BBC News 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The man who could write a lyric that natural is not a sentence-maker remote from the demotic sounds around him. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Today there are more than 40,000 scientific journals, from the hieratic to the demotic, the parochial to the cosmogonic. In the beginning 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z PFA chief Gordon Taylor made a similar point in more demotic language: “I didn’t know there was a law that said once you come out of prison you still can’t do anything.” Soccer Star Convicted of Rape Returns to Training amid Angry Debate 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z The cheeks colour, the fist pounds the podium, the words turn plain and demotic. In his anger, Cameron has made Britain a toxic brand 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z His lapse into the demotic language of minstrelsy in the Dream Songs may turn off readers who have every right to be offended by lines like “yo legal & yo good. Is you feel well?” Remembering John Berryman, a Giant of American Poetry Some audition videos are demotic whilst others are softly persuasive, like that from Vanessa Dalmau - a campaigner in the Dominican Republic for the green group 350.org. UN seeks climate change 'Malala' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z But by the 1980s, publishers wanted literature to reflect the demotic speech of ordinary folk. Shaking off the 'kilted straitjacket' 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Although Fear of Flying was written in 1973, two years before I was born, the tone of the book was demotic and feverish, almost journal-like, and written in a way that seemed incredibly modern. Fear of Flying was the first time I encountered adult life and wasn’t bored 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z There was another language used by the ancient Egyptians, and expressed in what is called the demotic or enchorial character. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-15T03:00:31.720Z The names of the kings who composed it have recently been found in deeds written in demotic characters. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z They bore numerous inscriptions in hieroglyphics and the demotic character, wherefrom the clue was obtained as to their identity. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Beside the remains of the picture symbols, the demotic writing employs seventeen simple phonetic symbols and some fifty symbols of syllables. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z An Egyptian pillar gives the year 34, a demotic contract the year 35 of his reign: he ascended the throne therefore in 521 B.C. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z The characters in demotic are derived from the hieratic, but appear in a simpler form, and phonetics largely prevail over ideographs. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Osiris and Isis make way for Christ and the Blessed Virgin, the Coptic alphabet replaces the demotic script of heathenism, and the bodies of the dead cease to be embalmed. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Who could resist such intoxicating use of Irish demotic? Auschwitz Opera Misses; Playboy Hits Irish Pub: London Stage 2011-10-02T23:22:06Z The hieroglyphic and hieratic modes of writing are called on the monuments the "writing of the gods," the demotic is "the writing of the books." The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The sacred character, whether hieroglyphic or hieratic, presents a much more archaic type of the Egyptian language than the demotic, differing from it very considerably, though the two are used concurrently. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Another mode of cursive writing used by the people and employed in law, literature, and secular matters, is known as demotic or enchorial. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Mr. de Saulcy has already unravelled the intricacy of the demotic writing of Egypt and the popular characters of ancient Libya. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Annunziata reportedly resisted advice from Conservative central office that she should change her fancy first name to the more demotic Nancy. U.K. Election: Celebrities Promise Change 2010-04-27T20:50:00Z Two examples of this decree are known, inscribed in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" During the whole of this period, comprising more than eight centuries, the sacred dialect and character are used concurrently with the demotic. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z One of the most characteristic distinctions of later demotic is the minuteness of the writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Dr. Lepsius found in that region, numerous inscriptions in the Egyptian demotic, and in Greek characters, but written in an unknown language. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z There is probably some exaggeration in this account, nevertheless, the demotic deeds, in a measure, confirm it. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy The Egyptians employed what practically were three alphabets—the hieroglyphic, the hieratic, and the demotic. Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings From this account it will appear that the Coptic, as a language, cannot differ materially from the demotic. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Under the later Ptolemies and the Roman rule documents in Greek are more abundant than in demotic, and the language of the ruling classes must have begun to penetrate the masses deeply. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" This stone, a tablet of black basalt, contains three inscriptions, one in hieroglyphics, another in demotic or enchorial, and a third in the Greek language. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The demotic inscription—that is to say, the text in the writing of the people, was one of the most inviting to decipher, because the signs composing it seemed to be letters representing sound. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Among the manuscripts are several Egyptian deeds, written on papyrus, in the demotic or enchorial character. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 The demotic character was derived ultimately from the hieroglyphic. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Demotic grammar ought soon to be thoroughly comprehensible in its forms, and the study of Late Egyptian should not stand far behind that of demotic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Its temples, palaces, tombs, isolated monuments, present an infinite number of inscriptions in hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic characters. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life He should also be able to read the various Egyptian scripts—the 400 hieroglyphics of the monuments, the hieratic, or running hand of the papyri, and the later demotic. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 These papers were in two languages-Greek and demotic, or the popular language of the Egyptians. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 The demotic writing was interspersed with figures of the Egyptian deities, used as symbolic or alphabetical signs. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Throughout the history of the language we note an increasing tendency to periphrasis; but there was no great advance towards precision before demotic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The demotic was reserved for general use among the Egyptians: decrees and other public acts, contracts, some funeral stelæ, and private transactions, were written in demotic. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The demotic organization of the Siouan peoples, so far as known, is set forth in considerable detail in Mr Dorsey's treatises52 and in the foregoing enumeration of tribes, confederacies, and other linguistic groups. The Siouan Indians Of these demotic fragments a large quantity had been sent to the British Museum. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 The older Egyptian writing, whether sacred or demotic, would obscure the distinction of dialects, partly from a conservative fondness for time-honoured modes of representation, but chiefly owing to the nature of the character itself. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z The passive was extinct before demotic; demotic and Coptic express it, clumsily it must be confessed, by an impersonal “they,” e.g. “they bore him” stands for “he was born.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" When the signs of the Indians have from ideographic form thus become demotic, they may be called conventional, but still not arbitrary. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 This strong divergent tendency in itself suggests rapid, perhaps abnormally rapid, growth in the stock; for it outran and partially concealed the tendency toward convergence and ultimate coalescence which characterizes demotic phenomena. The Siouan Indians The Literature of ancient Egypt is the product of a period of about four thousand years, and it was written in three kinds of writing, which are called hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Already in the demotic writing we find a few of these foreign intruders naturalized; but in the Coptic, as used for ecclesiastical purposes, they occur in the greatest profusion. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Though demotic has not yet received serious attention at Berlin, the influence of that great school has made itself felt amongst demotists, especially in Switzerland, Germany, America and England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The interpretation of the ancient scripts has reached a technical mastery unknown to the pioneers, and the genius of Brugsch unlocked the door to demotic, which Champollion had never thoroughly mastered. Recent Developments in European Thought Accordingly the mean of demotic progress tends to lag far behind its foremost advances, and modes of action and especially of thought change slowly. The Siouan Indians Associated words: demotic, democratic, democracy, popular, lay, depopulate, depopulation. philosopher's stone. Putnam's Word Book And in the later lines of the lyric, Oliver marks his disengagement by a withdrawal into a more demotic register. Deadly Pollen The split reed of the Greek penman was occasionally adopted by the late demotic scribes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" What I expected was a reply in kind, an hieratic acceptance or a demotic refusal; either one would be good practice for Monny. It Happened in Egypt In tribal society, both clan and gentile, the entire social structure is based on real or assumed kinship, and a large part of the demotic devices are designed to establish, perpetuate, and advertise kinship relations. The Siouan Indians The second sort of characters, the hieratic, and the third, the demotic, are curtailed pictures, which can thus be written more rapidly. Outline of Universal History There is no trouble in deciphering demotic Greek and the hieroglyph minerals are quite simple. The Wheel O' Fortune By 1818 he made many equations between the demotic and the hieroglyphic characters, and was able to transcribe the demotic names of Ptolemy and Cleopatra into hieroglyphics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The demotic writing indicates the rise of the vulgar tongue, which took place about the beginning of the seventh century B.C. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Many funerary rolls were written both in hieroglyphs and hieratic, and were decorated with vignettes drawn in black outline; and about this time the scribes began to write funerary texts in the demotic character. The Book of the Dead In the demotic, or people's writing, the characters are somewhat more curtailed, or abridged, than in the hieratic, or priestly, style. Outline of Universal History It holds an inscription, written in hieroglyphic, in demotic, and in Greek characters. General History for Colleges and High Schools Egyptian seems to represent approximately the vulgar speech of the Saite period, and is written in the “demotic” character, which may be traced back to the XXVIth Dynasty, if not to a still earlier time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" THE WRITING.—Four distinct graphic systems were in use in ancient Egypt: the hieroglyphic, the hieratic, the demotic, and Coptic. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The Egyptians also wrote from right to left in the hieratic and demotic and enchorial styles. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. London: documents at sight, Asked me in demotic French To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel Followed by a weekend at the Metropole. The Waste Land The death of Heinrich Brugsch in 1895 was a very severe blow to demotic studies; but it must be admitted that his brilliant gifts lay in other directions than exact grammatical analysis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In demotic the most notable of such works is a papyrus of the first century a.d. at Leiden. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" This tablet was inscribed with three versions, in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, of a long decree of the Egyptian priests in honour of Ptolemy V., Epiphanes and his wife Cleopatra. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" A granite gateway to the temple of Khnūm at Elephantine bears his name in hieroglyphic, and demotic documents are found dated in his reign. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" This method of writing can be traced back into the Middle Kingdom, if not beyond, and it greatly affected the spelling of native words in New Egyptian and demotic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In business and literary documents red ink was used for contrast, especially in headings; in demotic, however, it is very rarely seen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" He considered that these names must be written in phonetic characters in the hieroglyphic as in demotic, but he failed to analyse them correctly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" New Egyptian shades off almost imperceptibly into demotic, and it may be hoped that gaps which now exist in the development will be filled by further discovery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The written hieroglyphs, formed by the scribe with the reed pen on papyrus, leather, wooden tablets, &c., have their outlines more or less abbreviated, producing eventually the cursive scripts hieratic and demotic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" A better form from Lower Egypt drove this out completely in the time of Amasis II. and is the true demotic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" HRGic is normally written from right to left, the signs facing to the commencement of the line; hieratic and demotic follow the same direction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In old Egyptian tales the narrative portions are frequently in prose; New Egyptian and demotic contain as a rule little else. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The table on next page shows them in their more correct position, in order to display more clearly their relation to the hieratic and demotic equivalents. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In demotic there are distinguishable a present tense, imperfect, perfect, frequentative, future, future perfect, conjunctive and optative; also present, past and future negatives, &c. 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