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Italic adj.

Relating to Italy or to its people.

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.

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Etymology of 'Italic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Italic" Quotes from Famous Books

... Art of Poetry" is printed in italic font with plain font used for emphasis. For ease of reading, the transcriber has used underscore to represent the plain text. In all other sections of this document, underscore is used ...

— The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry • Andre Dacier

... the e-text with braces ("curly brackets"): co{n}nyng{e}. Readers who find this added information distracting may globally delete all braces in the body text; they are not used for any other purpose. Italic markings were omitted from forms such as "Fol. 51a." where the a or b was consistently italicized. Whole-word italics (in modern editorial material only) are shown ...

— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various

... mother's chamber, and the porringer from which children scooped their bread-and-milk with spoons as solid as ingots, to that ominous vessel, on the upper shelf, far back in the dark, with a spout like a slender italic S, out of which the sick and dying, all along the last century, and since, had taken the last drops that passed their lips. Without being much of a scholar, Dick could see well enough, too, that the books in the library had been ordered from the great London ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... famous 'italic' type, first cast for Aldus, and said to have been modelled on the handwriting ...

— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus

... the disease of the Bibliomania is materially softened, or rendered mild, by directing our studies to useful and profitable works—whether these be printed upon small or large paper, in the gothic, roman, or italic type; To consider purely the intrinsic excellence, and not the exterior splendour, or adventitious value, of any production, will keep us perhaps wholly free from this disease. Let the midnight lamp be burnt to illuminate ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Words linked to "Italic" : typeface, cursive, Indo-European, longhand, italicise, fount, font, cursive script, Osco-Umbrian, face, Indo-European language