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English Dictionary: majuscule	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for majuscule
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
majuscule adj of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries Antonym(s): minuscular, minuscule uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" Synonym(s): capital, great, majuscule n 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" Synonym(s): capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule Antonym(s): lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Majuscule \Majus"cule\, n. [Cf. F. majuscule. See {Majuscul[91]}.] A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See {Majuscul[91]}. {Majuscule* writing}, writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.