Definition of Minuscular

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

Exact synonyms: Minuscule
Also: Lowercase
Derivative terms: Minuscule
Antonyms: Majuscule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minuscular

minty
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 (current term)
minuscule
minusculely
minuscules
minuses
minutary
minute book
minute gun
minute hand
minute hands
minute mutant
minute of angle
minute of arc
minute output

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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