enchorial

American  

[en-kawr-ee-uhl, -kohr-] / ɛnˈkɔr i əl, -ˈkoʊr- /

Also enchoric

adjective

1. (especially of demotic writing) belonging to or used in a particular country.

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enchorial British  

/ ɛnˈkɔːrɪəl /

adjective

1. of or used in a particular country: used esp of the popular (demotic) writing of the ancient Egyptians

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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

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Example Sentences

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enchorial

Under the opening credits come the enchorial strains of God Save the Queen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Herbert Spencer

The Egyptians also wrote from right to left in the hieratic and demotic and enchorial styles.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

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

The latter has been also termed enchorial, or popular.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

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