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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In paleography, intermediate between uncial and minuscule: noting a method of writing Latin and Greek characters found in the sixth or seventh and succeeding centuries.
- n. One of the characters exhibiting the transition from uncial to minuscule writing.
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“A vile greasy scrawl, indeedand the letters are uncial or semi-uncial, as somebody calls your large text hand, and in size and perpendicularity resemble the ribs of a roasted pigI can hardly make it out.”
“The writing of this period is uncial or semi-uncial.”
“Among its chief characteristics are: A sometimes open 11403a36. gif, sometimes closed, and derived from the uncial 11403a37. gif; the ascenders of the b, d, l, and h broadened at the top 11403a38. gif; the g retains its semi-uncial form 11403a39. gif; the i no longer goes above the line.”
“It was an _édition de luxe_, the Greek text exquisitely printed from a fount of semi-uncial type, the special glory of the Harden Classics.”
“‘A vile greasy scrawl, indeed; and the letters are uncial or semi-uncial, as somebody calls your large text hand, and in size and perpendicularity resemble the ribs of a roasted pig; I can hardly make it out.’”
“A vile greasy scrawl, indeed; and the letters are uncial or semi-uncial, as somebody calls your large text hand, and in size and perpendicularity resemble the ribs of a roasted pig; I can hardly make it out. ”
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