italic

italic adj

Fr. < L. Italicus < Gk.

1. Right-sloping; cursive; hand-written; with inclining characters; [fig.] important; essential; significant; emphatic; underlined.
2. Twisted; deformed; distorted; lined with age; wrinkled with suffering; [fig.] frowning; sorrowful.

italic n

see italic, adj.

1. Grandeur; magnificence; renaissance; classical style; [fig.] re-living; nostalgia; outstanding memory.