a. [ Gr. dhmotiko`s, fr. dh^mos the people: cf. F. démotique. ] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. [ 1913 Webster ]
Demotic alphabetor Demotic character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]