Crossword-Solution: UNCIAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Uncial | a. | Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style. |
| Uncial | n. | An uncial letter. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UNCIAL | anagram | ALCUIN, CULINA, LUCIAN, LUCINA |
We have 6 clues for the answer “UNCIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Old Greek handwriting style | 1 answer |
| Old manuscript letter | 1 answer |
| Writing style of old Latin manuscripts | 1 answer |
| large letter | 1 answer |
| A STYLE OF ORTHOGRAPHY CHARACTERIZED BY SOMEWHAT ROUNDED CAPITAL LETTERS | 11 answers |
| Letter | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAECZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNCIAL (5)
Among the companies in which he reluctantly allowed the investing public to join were the Golden Gate Dock Company, and Recreation Parks Company, the United Water Company, the Uncial Shipbuilding Company, and the Sierra and Salvador Power Company.
This new writing was in two forms--round and pointed--but both were derived from the Roman half-uncial style.
The clear and beautifully-shaped Irish round hand is closely akin to the half-uncial character of fifth and sixth century Latin writings found on the Continent.
For the rest, it measured ten and a half inches in length by seven in width, was about a quarter of an inch thick, and densely covered on the convex side that lay towards the bottom of the box with writing in the later uncial Greek character, faded here and there, but for the most part perfectly legible, the inscription having evidently been executed with the greatest care, and by means of a reed pen, such as the ancients often used.
Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the _scarabæus_, which we had also found in the casket.
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Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1999–2010).