Day: November 25, 2015

Democracy

Is democracy as common as muck?

Is it vulgar to title books F*ck?

For again in the bookshop

I happened to look up

In spirituality that F book is back.

 

I complained about it  four years ago.

So to see it reprinted’s a blow.

The vocabulary of a writer

Should make them seem smarter.

Readers   deserve a better word show

 

Demotiv

 

Demotic [Oxford Dictionary]

Rivers of colour
Rivers of colour

 

demotic

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Line breaks: dem|ot¦ic

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɒtɪk/

Definition of demotic in English:

adjective

1Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial:a demotic idiom

1.1Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. Compare with katharevousa.

1.2Relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from circa 650bc and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period. Compare with hieratic.

1Ordinary colloquial speech:he blinked in mild surprise at this uncharacteristic leap into the demotic

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1.1Demotic Greek.

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1.2Demotic Egyptian script.

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Origin

Early 19th century (in the sense ‘relating to the Egyptian demotic’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular’, from dēmotēs ‘one of the people’, from dēmos ‘the people’.

Words that rhyme with demotic

abiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, despotic, erotic, exotic, homoerotic, hypnotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic, zymotic

Definition of demotic in:

Antic:the meaning

antic

[an-tik]

noun
1.

Usually, antics.

  1. a playful trick or prank; caper.
  2. a grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture.
2.

Archaic.

  1. an actor in a grotesque or ridiculous presentation.
  2. a buffoon; clown.
3.

Obsolete.

  1. a grotesque theatrical presentation; ridiculous interlude.
  2. a grotesque or fantastic sculptured figure, as a gargoyle.
adjective
4.

ludicrous; funny.
5.

fantastic; odd; grotesque:

an antic disposition.
verb (used without object), anticked, anticking.
6.

Obsolete. to perform antics; caper.
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Origin of anticExpand
Italian
Latin
1520-1530

1520-30; earlier antike, antique < Italian antico ancient (< Latin antīcus,antīquus; seeantique ), apparently taken to mean “grotesque,” as used indescriptions of fantastic figures found in Roman ruins

Related formsExpand
antically, adverb
Can be confusedExpand
antic, antique.

Antic

I’m antic

pedantic

I’m a mise-en-scene

Don’t have been.

I’m frantic.

semantic.

I’m a dream of pipes

When I am ripe.

The atlantic

demonic

I’m  a sinking ship

In the antarctic

I’m a frozen sprite

Covered,white.

I’m a par amour.

Oh.d’accords

A terr0r scene

What has been?

The Russian boy

Convoy.

Arctic circles

Trapped shall hurtle

Pi has gone

Transcending dread.

Oh,my he.

What can we be?

Tantric

Mantric.

Mindful be

Drowned in see.

 

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