Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a minuscule; written in minuscules.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. of or relating to minuscule script, a small cursive script developed from uncial, and used in the 7th to 9th centuries.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
Examples
“Such a shift is to be seen in multiple in the German nation within the past half-century, when, for instance, the Hanoverians, the Saxons, and even the Holsteiners in very appreciable numbers, not to mention the subjects of minuscular principalities whose names have been forgotten in the shuffle, all became good and loyal subjects of the Empire and of the Imperial dynasty, -- good and loyal without reservation, as has abundantly appeared.”
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘minuscular’.
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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Small stuff
Adjectives that describe small objects.
small, tiny, diminutive, little, dinky, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teeny, bitsy, bitty, bantam, teensy and 23 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
Tweets
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qroqqa The wondering and minuscular fore-finger
Traced that embossing by the magic world.
—Robert Fitzgerald, 'Animula' Mar 23, 2009