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Definition of Majuscules
1. majuscule [n] - See also: majuscule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Majuscules
Literary usage of Majuscules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke by Frédéric Louis Godet (1889)
"Those of our majuscules which represent it are the following: ... The opposite
form, which is found in the older majuscules, ..."
2. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon, Louis Francoi̧s Fain (1821)
"Capitules ( majuscules } capitals, capital letters. Faire capot, Mar. to overset.
* Demeurer capot, to he balked, look very silly. ..."
3. Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans by Frédéric Louis Godet (1883)
"The majuscules in which Paul's Epistles have been preserved are eleven in ...
The Alexandrine set, represented by the four oldest majuscules (к А В С), ..."
4. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1895)
"... passages where H departs from the older majuscules : 20. in passages where H
agrees with the older majuscules against the younger ones : 21. in passages ..."
5. Latin Manuscripts: An Elementary Introduction to the Use of Critical by Harold Whetstone Johnston (1897)
"9) and a comparison of these cursives with the majuscules above will discover
... The Latin majuscules divide into two types, the Capital and the Uncial. ..."
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