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Definition of Minuscule

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries.

2. Noun. The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.

3. Adjective. Lowercase. "E.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

4. Noun. A small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts.

5. Adjective. Very small. "A minuscule amount of rain fell"

Definition of Minuscule

1. n. Any very small, minute object.

Definition of Minuscule

1. Noun. A lower-case letter. ¹

2. Noun. Any of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule. ¹

3. Noun. A letter in these styles. ¹

4. Adjective. Written in minuscules, lower-case. ¹

5. Adjective. Written in minuscule handwriting style. ¹

6. Adjective. Very small, tiny. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Minuscule

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Medical Definition of Minuscule

1. 1. Any very small, minute object. 2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules. "These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials." (I. Taylor (The Alphabet)) Origin: L. Minusculus rather small, fr. Minus less: cf. F. Minuscule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minuscule

minuend minuends minuet minuetlike minuets minuity minus minus-plus sign minus-plus signs minus-strand nucleic acid

minus lens minus sign minus signs minus strand minuscular minuscule (current term) minusculely minuscules minuses minutary

minute book minute gun minute hand minute hands minute mutant minute of angle minute of arc minute output minute repeater

Literary usage of Minuscule

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Toward the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century, the minuscule writing was well established and the uncial was in disuse, except for church- ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Through the 14th and 15th centuries the decline of the set minuscule rapidly ... In these 'Tellum liturgical MSS. the more formal style of the minuscule was ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"2 6); and it appears in the epitome of Livy of the 3rd century found at Oxyrhynchus, in which minuscule letters are interspersed among the uncial text. ..."

4. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown (1902)
"... Moreover modern designers are showing a welcome attention to minuscule letters, and it even seems possible that before long some small letter forms that ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In these MSS. are found the various kinds of ancient writing: the epigraphic capital, the rustic capital, the uncial, the half-uncial, and the minuscule. ..."

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