Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Relating to Italy or to its people. 2. (a.) 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. 3. (n.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 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.

Multi-Version Concordance Italic (1 Occurrence) Acts 10:1 But a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion of the band called Italic, (DBY)