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Definition of Cursive
1. Noun. Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper.
Specialized synonyms: Minuscule, Copperplate, Italic, Round Hand
Generic synonyms: Hand, Handwriting, Script
2. Adjective. Having successive letter joined together. "Cursive script"
Definition of Cursive
1. a. Running; flowing.
2. n. A character used in cursive writing.
Definition of Cursive
1. Adjective. Having successive letters joined together. ¹
2. Noun. A cursive character, letter or font. ¹
3. Noun. A manuscript written in cursive characters. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cursive
1. a style of print [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cursive
Literary usage of Cursive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"cursive.—For examples of Boman cursive writing we are able to go as far back as
the 1st century of the Christian era. During the excavations at Pompeii in ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"There are very early writings in cursive character upon papyrus. Most nations,
in fact, have a cursive as well as a formal character. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(3) The cursive, directly derived from the capital, the forms of which it retained
for a long time. The letters are joined by ligatures which allowed the ..."
4. A Companion to the Greek Testament and the English Version by Philip Schaff (1883)
"B. THE cursive MANUSCRIPTS. The cursive MSS. are indicated by Arabic numerals.
... "Wo Lave, in round figures, more than COO cursive MSS. of the Gospels; ..."
5. Museum Criticum: Or, Cambridge Classical Researches by Henry James Monk, Charles James Blomfield (1826)
"ON THE GREEK cursive CHARACTER, THE existence of a Greek cursive Character has
... All probability was in favour of the existence of a cursive character, ..."
6. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1861)
"SECTION III, On the cursive Manuscripts of the Greek Testament. THE later
manuscripts of the Greek Testament, written in cursive characters from the tenth ..."
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