miniscule

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Very common misspelling of minuscule
Alternative spelling of minuscule
Very
very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
US, colloquial, alternative spelling of minuscule
{s} tiny, very small
eeny
minuscule
A lower-case letter
minuscule
Very small, tiny

a minuscule dot.

minuscule
A letter in these styles
minuscule
Written in minuscules, lower-case
minuscule
Written in minuscule handwriting style
minuscule
Any of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule
Minuscule
weeny
minuscule
A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters
minuscule
Any noncapital letter Minuscule scripts contain letters of uneven height because of the ascenders and descenders Back to top
minuscule
Greek manuscripts that are written in small letters that are usually joined to each other as in cursive script These manuscripts are more recent than the Uncial manuscripts, which are written in large capital letters that are separate from each other
minuscule
{i} lower case letter; small handwriting
minuscule
{s} tiny, very small
minuscule
Synonym for lowercase (See case )
minuscule
Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules
minuscule
The Greek characters of lower case: abgde, etc Different copies of Greek manuscripts appear in minuscule form See Uncial
minuscule
During the ninth century a reform in handwriting occurred from which was developed a script of small letters in a running hand call minuscule This cursive script became popular for the production of books
minuscule
a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
minuscule
a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
minuscule
the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
minuscule
of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
minuscule
lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e e cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
minuscule
The lower case form of a letter
minuscule
Any very small, minute object
minuscule
very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
minuscule
If you describe something as minuscule, you mean that it is very small. The film was shot in 17 days, a minuscule amount of time. = minute. extremely small = minute (minusculus , from minor ). Lowercase letters in calligraphy, in contrast to majuscule, or uppercase letters. Unlike majuscules, minuscules are not fully contained between two real or hypothetical lines; their stems can go above or below the line. Developed by Alcuin in the 8th century, it allowed the division of writing into sentences and paragraphs by beginning sentences with capital letters and ending them with periods. The script was originally rounded, but gradually the strokes became heavier until it became what is now known as Gothic or black letter script
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