Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Italic \I*tal"ic\, a. [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf.
   {Italian}.]
   1. Relating to Italy or to its people.

   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.

   {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}.

Itala \It"a*la\, n. [Fem. of L. Italus Italian.]
   An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament
   was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the
   {Italic version}).