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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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