Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a minuscule; written in minuscules.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or relating to minuscule script, a small cursive script developed from uncial, and used in the 7th to 9th centuries.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
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Examples
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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 Thorstein Veblen 1893
qroqqa commented on the word minuscular
The wondering and minuscular fore-finger
Traced that embossing by the magic world.
—Robert Fitzgerald, 'Animula'
March 23, 2009