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English Dictionary: italic	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
italic adj characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters" of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects" n a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative Synonym(s): Italic, Italic language a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italic \Ital"ic\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italic \Ital"ic\, a. [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf. {Italian}.] 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, 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See {Compound}, v. t., and cf. {Compost}.] 1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. --Landor. 2. (Arch.) 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}.