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Italic  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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"Italic" Quotes from Famous Books



... marks is in italics (italics). The italic designation for single italized letters (such as variables in equations) and "foreign" abbreviations has been ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... a fine Italic hand on expensive paper, with corrections here and there as if the writer had obeyed inspiration first and consulted a dictionary afterward—a neat letter, even neat in ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... the Greeks in this matter I have not space here to speak, nor am I competent to do so. But the conviction is steadily gaining ground that in early Rome we have to recognise the existence of two races; whether the older of these was Ligurian, as Prof. Ridgeway thinks, or primitive Latin, i.e. old Italic, as Binder believes, does not matter for our present purpose;[855] nor are the arguments drawn from religion which these writers have used at all convincing to my intelligence. But they have not noticed what is to me a really valid argument, viz. ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler
... In this text the oe-ligature is represented by brackets [oe]. Bold text is represented by and italic by . In addition, the text used / as punctuation ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry


Words linked to "Italic" :   italicize, Osco-Umbrian, Indo-European language, Indo-European, cursive, cursive script, Indo-Hittite, Latin, typeface, running hand, face, font, Italic language, fount, case, longhand


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