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Minuscule   /mˈɪnəskjˌul/   Listen
adjective
minuscule  adj.  Of or relating to a minuscule (2) or of a script written in minuscules (2); of the size and style of minuscules (2); written in minuscules (2); minuscular. "These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials."


noun
Minuscule  n.  
1.
Any very small, minute object.
2.
A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters.





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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


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