italic

italic
    adj 1: characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"
    2: of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic
       dialects"
    n 1: a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the
         right
    2: a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the
       chief representative [syn: {Italic}, {Italic language}]
    3: a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
    

Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of
   parts, p. p. of componere. See {Compound}, v. t., and cf.
   {Compost}.]
   1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a
      composite language.
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            Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
                                                  --Landor.
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   2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of
      the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called
      also the {Roman} or the {Italic} order, and is one of the
      five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the
      sixteenth century. See {Capital}.
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   3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order {Composit[ae]}; bearing
      involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy,
      thistle, and dandelion.
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   {Composite carriage}, a railroad car having compartments of
      different classes. [Eng.]

   {Composite number} (Math.), one which can be divided exactly
      by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3..

   {Composite photograph} or {Composite portrait}, one made by a
      combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs.
      --F. Galton.

   {Composite sailing} (Naut.), a combination of parallel and
      great circle sailing.

   {Composite ship}, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.
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Italic \I*tal"ic\, a. [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf.
   {Italian}.]
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   1. Relating to Italy or to its people.
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   2. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters
      do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so
      called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the
      inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
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   {Italic languages}, the group or family of languages of
      ancient Italy.

   {Italic order} (Arch.), the composite order. See {Composite}.
      

   {Italic school}, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic
      philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were
      first promulgated.

   {Italic version}. See {Itala}.
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Italic \I*tal"ic\, 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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79 Moby Thesaurus words for "italic":
      ascender, autograph, autographic, back, bastard type, beard, belly,
      bevel, black letter, body, calligraphic, cap, capital, case,
      chirographic, counter, cursive, descender, em, en, engrossed, face,
      fat-faced type, feet, flowing, font, graphic, graphoanalytic,
      graphologic, graphometric, groove, holograph, holographic,
      in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italicized,
      letter, ligature, logotype, longhand, lower case, majuscule,
      manuscript, minuscule, nick, on paper, penciled, penned, pi, pica,
      point, print, printed, roman, running, sans serif, script,
      scriptorial, scriptural, shank, shorthand, shoulder, small cap,
      small capital, stamp, stem, stylographic, type, type body,
      type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders,
      typefoundry, upper case, written