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Definition of Minuscular
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minuscular
Literary usage of Minuscular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish academy (1879)
"It is in the mixed minuscular and uncial letters in use in the post-Roman period
in Britain, numerous examples of which may be seen in the late editions of ..."
2. Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans by Frédéric Louis Godet (1883)
"served, with very little divergency, in the 250 copies of Paul's Epistles in
cursive or minuscular writing, later consequently than the tenth century, ..."
3. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1854)
"The more recent known manuscripts, of the period from the end of the ninth to
the beginning of the sixteenth century, written in the minuscular (small) ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The minuscular form a is, in nearly all cases, represented, though some examples
of 0 occur in the monuments of Africa and Spain. ..."
5. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1861)
"With these are mentioned eighteen minuscular or cursive manuscripts, two of them
of the ninth century, — one either a new revision of the Septuagint, ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1834)
"A further portion of Mr. Ottley's paper was read, principally relating to the
use of minuscular writing by the Romans. March 20. Mr. Gurney in the chair. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... and it may here be observed, in passing, that the early grandeur of uncial
characters*, maju.scular or minuscular, often made it necessary, ..."
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