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Minuscule   /mˈɪnəskjˌul/   Listen
Minuscule

noun
1.
The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.  Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter.
2.
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


Words linked to "Minuscule" :   cursive script, grapheme, uppercase, longhand, majuscule, cursive, lower-case letter, graphic symbol, running hand, character


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