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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 These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style.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...
- 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...
- cursive styles. The known variants include the early semi-uncial, the uncial, and the later semi-uncial. At the end of the Roman Empire (5th century AD), several...
- 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...
- 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...
- epigraphic style to rounded ones ("uncials"). But only certain letters were affected by this development, in particular ⟨E⟩ (uncial ⟨ε⟩), ⟨Σ⟩ (⟨c⟩), ⟨Ω⟩ (⟨ω⟩)...
- Uncial 067 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 2 (Soden), is a Gr**** uncial m****cript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 6th century...
- 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...
- Soden numbering of New Testament m****cripts. It is one of the four great uncial codices.: 68  Along with Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Sinaiticus, it is...