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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



... number there is added after a repeated advertisement of the Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff in 4 vols. 8vo, a repetition in Italic type of the advertisement of the Boarding School on Mile-end Green (ending at the words render them accomplish'd) to which a conspicuous place was given, with original additions by Steele, in ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... the merits and the faults of the "red blood" school in fiction, illustrated by the late Jack London and the lively Rex Beach. It is not the highest form of art. It insists on being heard, but it smells of mortality. You cannot give permanence to a book by printing it in italic type. ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... used throughout (medial u/v is variable) "you" always printed with superscript "u" (replacing both "you" and yo{u}) "S^r" (superscript "r") printed as "S{i}r" (italic "i") "emongst(e)" always spelled ...
— Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes - 1865 edition • Francis Thynne
... ILLIS] The famous 'italic' type, first cast for Aldus, and said to have been modelled on the handwriting of Politian, ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... both languages, titles were randomly Italic or Roman. Italicization (or de-italicization) of 's ...
— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski


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


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