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Italic : adj
1: characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"
2: of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic
dialects" [syn: Italic]
(noun)
1: a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the
right
2: a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is
the chief representative [syn: Italic, Italic language]
3: a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Italic : \I*tal"ic\, a. [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf.
Italian.]
1. Relating to Italy or to its people.
2. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters
do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so
called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the
inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
Italic languages, the group or family of languages of
ancient Italy.
Italic order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite.
Italic school, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic
philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were
first promulgated.
Italic version. See Itala.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Italic : \I*tal"ic\, n.; pl. Italics. (Print.)
An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.);
-- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's.
Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis,
importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic
letters.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of
parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf.
Compost.]
1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a
composite language.
Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
--Landor.
2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of
the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called
also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the
five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the
sixteenth century. See Capital.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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