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Italic

Italic Meaning & Definition
Italic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Italic?

[n] a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
[n] a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
[n] a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
[adj] of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects"
[adj] characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Italic: Italic language

Related Terms | Find terms related to Italic: ascender | autograph | autographic | back | bastard type | beard | belly | bevel | black letter | body | calligraphic | cap | capital | case | chirographic | counter | cursive | descender | em | en | engrossed | face | fat-faced type | feet | flowing | font | graphic | graphoanalytic | graphologic | graphometric | groove | holograph | holographic | in longhand | in shorthand | in writing | inscribed | italicized | letter | ligature | logotype | longhand | lower case | majuscule | manuscript | minuscule | nick | on paper | penciled | penned | pi | pica | point | print | printed | roman | running | sans serif | script | scriptorial | scriptural | shank | shorthand | shoulder | small cap | small capital | stamp | stem | stylographic | type | type body | type class | type lice | typecase | typeface | typefounders | typefoundry | upper case | written

See Also | cursive | face | font | fount | Indo-European | Indo-European language | Indo-Hittite | Latin | longhand | Osco-Umbrian | running hand | typeface

Italic In Webster's Dictionary

\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}.
\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.

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