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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,
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n. | 1. | (Print.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, |
Noun | 1. | italic - a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right |
2. | Italic - a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative Synonyms: Italic language | |
3. | italic - a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right | |
Adj. | 1. | italic - characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters" |
2. | Italic - of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects" |