Found 4 hits - Term: minuscule, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
minuscule \minuscule\ adj. a.
of or relating to a minuscule2 or of a script written in
minuscules2; of the size and style of minuscules2;
written in minuscules2; minuscular.
1913 webster + wordnet 1.5
these minuscule letters are cursive forms of the
earlier uncials. --i. taylor
the
alphabet.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
minuscule \minus"cule\, n. l. minusculus rather small, fr.
minus less: cf. f. minuscule.
1913 webster
1. any very small, minute object.
1913 webster
2. a small roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial;
a manuscript written in such letters.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
minuscule
adj 1: of or relating to a small cursive script developed from
uncial; 7th to 9th centuries syn: minuscular ant:
majuscule
2: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
written all in minuscule letters" syn: little, small
3: very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of
rain fell" syn: miniscule
n 1: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a
compositor's type case syn: small letter, lower case,
lower-case letter ant: capital
2: a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th
and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
see also:
minuscular majuscule little small miniscule small letter
lower case lower-case letter capital
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
38 moby thesaurus words for "minuscule":
abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, baby, baby-sized, bantam,
banty, capital, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, graphemic, handy,
ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic,
logographic, lower-case, majuscule, miniature, miniaturized,
minikin, minimal, minuscular, pictographic, pocket, pocket-sized,
pony, small-scale, subminiature, toy, transliterated, twelvemo,
uncial, upper-case, vest-pocket
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