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<hw>I*tal"ian*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Italianized; Italianated.</def> "Apish, childish, and <i>Italianate</i>."

<i>Marlowe.</i>

<h1>Italianism</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>I*tal"ian*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.</def>

<h1>Italianize</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>I*tal"ian*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Italianized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Italianizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>italianiser</ets>, It. <ets>italianizzare</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To play the Italian; to speak Italian.</def>

<i>Cotgrave.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate.</def> "An Englishman <i>Italianized</i>."

<i>Lowell.</i>

<h1>Italic</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>I*tal"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Italicus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>italique</ets>. Cf. <er>Italian</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Relating to Italy or to its people.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>Italic languages</col>, <cd>the group or family of languages of ancient Italy.</cd> -- <col>Italic order</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>the composite order. See <er>Composite</er>.</cd> -- <col>Italic school</col>, <cd>a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated.</cd> -- <col>Italic version</col>. <cd>See <er>Itala</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Italic</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>I*tal"ic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Italics</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>An Italic letter, character, or type (see <er>Italic</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, 2.); -- often in the plural; <as>as, the <ex>Italics</ex> are the author's</as>. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.</def>

<h1>Italicism</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>I*tal"i*cism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The use of Italics.</def>

<h1>Italicize</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>I*tal"i*cize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Italicized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Italicizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; <as>as, to <ex>Italicize</ex> a word; <ex>Italicizes</ex> too much.</as></def>

<h1>Ita palm</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>I"ta palm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A magnificent species of palm (<spn>Mauritia flexuosa</spn>), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.</def>

<h1>Itch</h1> <Xpage=793>

<hw>Itch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Itched</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Itching</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>icchen</ets>, <ets><?/icchen</ets>, AS. <ets>giccan</ets>; akin to D. <ets>jeuken</ets>, <ets>joken</ets>, G. <ets>jucken</ets>, OHG. <ets>jucchen</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.</def>