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Definition of Uncial

Uncial
Uncial Un"cial, a. [L. uncialis amounting to the twelfth part of a pound or a foot, from uncia the twelfth part of a pound or of a foot, an ounce, an inch: cf. F. oncial. See Inch a measure.] 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 These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style.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
Uncial Un"cial, n. An uncial letter.

Meaning of Uncial from wikipedia

- Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Gr**** scribes. Uncial letters...
- Insular half-uncial (or "Insular majuscule"), used for important do****ents and sacred text. The full uncial, in a version called "English uncial", was used...
- epigraphic style to rounded ones ("uncials"). But only certain letters were affected by this development, in particular ⟨E⟩ (uncial ⟨ε⟩), ⟨Σ⟩ (⟨c⟩), ⟨Ω⟩ (⟨ω⟩)...
- variants include the early semi-uncial (c. 3rd century), the uncial (c. 4th–8th centuries), and the late semi-uncial (c. 6th–8th centuries). At the end...
- earliest form of m****cript Cyrillic, known as ustav, was based on Gr**** uncial script, augmented by ligatures and by letters from the Glagolitic alphabet...
- A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Gr**** or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum. This style of writing is...
- m****cripts during the 9th and 10th centuries. It replaced the earlier style of uncial writing, from which it differed in using smaller, more rounded and more...
- The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible...
- This article uses the IPA to transcribe Irish. Readers familiar with other conventions may wish to see Help:IPA/Irish for a comparison of the IPA system...
- (7th century BCE – 4th century CE) in contrast to the Roman uncial (4th–8th century CE), Roman half uncial, and minuscule Carolingian majuscule (4th–8th century...