Crossword-Solution: MAJUSCULE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Majuscule | n. | A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculae. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MAJUSCULE”
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| large letter, either capital or uncial, used in printing or writing | 1 answer |
| of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MAJUSCULE (5)
Leur air de chiens fouettés s'accordait mal avec la solennité du décor et l'emphase des paroles, où revenaient à chaque instant de grands mots à majuscule: l'Honneur, la Justice, qui ne faisaient rien à l'histoire et qui paraissaient faux, comme tout le reste dans ce cadre pompeux.
Previously the only symbols found in calligraphic majuscule manuscripts are the “Nomina Sacra” (_deus_, _dominus_, _Iesus_, _Christus_, _spiritus_, _sanctus_), which constantly occur in Christian literature, and such suspensions as are met with in our fragment.
Instead of thinking him arrant knave or fool enough to bring down “antiquity” to the thirteenth century, we might charitably push back his definition of “_nostri characteres_” to include anything in minuscules; script “not our own” would be the majuscule hands in vogue before the Middle Ages.
There were, then, by this supposition, _two_ ancient majuscule manuscripts of the _Letters_, most closely related in text--veritable twins, indeed--that travelled from Italy to France.
Majuscule writing, writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.