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italics i-tal′iks, n.pl. a kind of types which
slope to the right (as in the last four words), so called because
first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, about 1500,
employed for emphasis and other distinctive purposes.—n.Italicisā′tion.—v.t.Ital′icīse, to print in
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