a. [f. Gr. ἐγχώρι-ος in or of the country (f. ἐν in + xwpá country) + -AL.] That belongs to, or is used in, a particular country: a. Used (after Gr. ἐγχώρια γράμματα, occurring on the Rosetta stone) as the distinctive epithet of the popular (as distinguished from the hieroglyphic and the hieratic) form of the ancient Egyptian written character; in technical use now commonly superseded by DEMOTIC. b. In general sense (somewhat rare.)
1822. Q. Rev., XXVIII. 189. A close comparison of the enchorial or demotic character with the corresponding Greek on the Rosetta stone.
1864. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., III. 98. The name … transmitted by the enchorial tradition … is clearly Teutonic.
1882. Pall Mall Gaz., 8 June, 4/2. That indescribable enchorial something which is British and not Netherlandish.
