enchorial
Americanadjective
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(especially of demotic writing) belonging to or used in a particular country.
adjective
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of or used in a particular country: used esp of the popular (demotic) writing of the ancient Egyptians
Etymology
Origin of enchorial
1815–25; < Late Latin enchōri ( us ) (< Greek enchṓrios native, equivalent to en- en- 2 + chṓr ( ā ) country + -ios adj. suffix) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Under the opening credits come the enchorial strains of God Save the Queen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the manuscripts are several Egyptian deeds, written on papyrus, in the demotic or enchorial character.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
There was another language used by the ancient Egyptians, and expressed in what is called the demotic or enchorial character.
In Egypt, written language underwent a further differentiation: whence resulted the hieratic and the epistolographic or enchorial: both of which are derived from the original hieroglyphic.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
This stone, a tablet of black basalt, contains three inscriptions, one in hieroglyphics, another in demotic or enchorial, and a third in the Greek language.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
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