ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
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uppercase
capital A
great A
many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
NOUN
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one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters
How To Use majuscule In A Sentence
- The descriptions of the majuscule transcriptions are identical with those in the majuscule area of the site.
- In honor of all the politicking, I give you one of my favorite political poems, this by e.e. cummings, of the famous minuscule vs majuscule debate. Archive 2007-01-01
- Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script.
- The majuscule letter V symbolizes a daughter of the Mother Goddess or the Mother Goddess as a virgin.
- It was an angular majuscule script, often written without breaks between words or with words separated by dots.
- In one hand he holds an open book and with an prodigious index finger points to the victim with words in red Roman majuscules against the night sky.
- It was more a matter of the development of a more mature pattern that was no longer a capital script but one that consisted of hybrid majuscules organized as a graphic system.
- He said he chose to carve the speech in Roman majuscule, the capital letters first used on structures built in 2nd-century Rome. Restoration work at JFK grave site begins
- There should be consistent family characteristics in minuscules and majuscules and between the two.
- Avec la majuscule au J et au P sinon ca marche pas!! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
