uncial

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'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 Read aloud,' said Mannering I will try,' answered the Lawyer.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters and found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the fourth to the eighth century A.D.
  2. noun A style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters. It provided the model from which most of the capital letters in the modern Latin alphabet are derived.
  3. noun A capital letter written in this style.

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  1. From Late Latin ūnciālēs (litterae), inch-high (letters), uncials, pl. of Latin ūnciālis, inch-high, from ūncia, a twelfth part, ounce, inch; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French onciale, unciale = Spanish Portuguese uncial, from Middle Latin uncialis, of a twelfth part, of an ounce or an inch, an inch high, Late Latin litteræ unciales, literally ‘inch letters,’ letters of considerable size; from Latin uncia, a twelfth part, an ounce, an inch: see uncia, ounce, inch.
 

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