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Minuscule

adjective

Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries. Synonym: minuscular.

Lowercase. Synonyms: little, small. "Small a" , "E.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

Very small. Synonym: miniscule. "A minuscule amount of rain fell"

noun

The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case. Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter.

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

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"Minuscule" Quotes from Famous Books

... latter class of stones are almost always, if not always, sepulchral. The characteristically rude letters in which they are written consist—in the earliest stones—of debased Roman capitals; and—in the latest—of the uncial or minuscule forms of letters which are used in the oldest English and Irish manuscripts. Some stones show an intermixture of both alphabetical characters. These "Romano-British" inscribed stones, as they have been usually termed, have hitherto been found principally ...

— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson

... Chemulpo on January 2nd, but instead of making use of the minuscule ponies, I went on foot, sending my baggage on in advance on a pack-saddle on one of them. I was still suffering considerably from an accident I had sustained to my foot among the hairy folk of the Hokkaido, and I thought that the long ...

— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor

... This substance is normally manufactured in the human body and is also found in minuscule amounts in almost every cell on Earth. For that reason it is also called "ubiquinone." But this vitamin has been only recently discovered, so as I write this book Co-enzyme Q-10 is ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon