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Definition of italic

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Italic (n.) 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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Italic :: Italic (n.) 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..

Italianism :: Italianism (n.) A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism..

Italicism :: Italicism (n.) A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.

Darnel :: Darnel (n.) Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay..

Italicizing :: Italicizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Italiciz.

Adjunct :: Adjunct (n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of History..

Itala :: Itala (n.) An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version)..

Italics :: Italics (pl. ) of Itali.

Italic :: Italic (a.) Relating to Italy or to its people.

Vitalic :: Vitalic (a.) Pertaining to life; vital.

Millet :: Millet (n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica..

Composite :: Composite (v. t.) 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..

Italicize :: Italicize (v. t. & i.) To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much..

Italicism :: Italicism (n.) The use of Italics.

Italicized :: Italicized (imp. & p. p.) of Italiciz.

Roman :: Roman (n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics..

A :: A () The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural

Roman :: Roman (a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters..

Moha :: Moha (n.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.

Italic :: Italic (a.) 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..