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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 de·mot·ic /dɪˈmɑtɪk/
 (a.)人民的,民眾的,通俗文體的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·mot·ic a.  Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
 Demotic alphabet or  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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Demotic
      adj 1: of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek
             based on colloquial use
      2: of or for the common people; "demotic entertainments";
         "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic
         rhythms"
      n : the modern Greek vernacular [syn: Romaic]