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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 920 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ITALIC , i.e. See also:

Italian, in See also:Roman See also:archaeology, See also:history and See also:law, a See also:term used, as distinct from Roman, of that which belongs to the races, See also:languages, &c., of the non-Roman parts of See also:Italy (see ITALY, See also:Ancient Languages and Peoples). In See also:architecture the Italic See also:order is another name for the Composite order (see ORDER). The term was applie1 to the See also:Pythagorean school of See also:philosophy in Magna Graecia, and to an See also:early Latin version of the See also:Bible,known also as Itala, which was superseded by the See also:Vulgate, but its See also:special technical use is of a particular See also:form of type, in which the letters slope to the right. This is used, in See also:present-See also:day See also:printing, chiefly to emphasize words or phrases, to indicate words or sentences in a See also:foreign See also:language, or to See also:mark the titles of books, &c.

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