Italic

·adj Relating to Italy or to its people.

II. Italic ·adj 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.

III. Italic ·noun An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, ·adj, 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.