De-mŏt'ic, a.

a. (Gr. δημοτικός, from δῆμος, the people; Fr. démotique.) Pertaining to the people; popular; common.

Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character;—called also epistolographic and enchorial character.