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Cursive   Listen
noun
Cursive  n.  
1.
A character used in cursive writing.
2.
A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; opposed to uncial.





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"Cursive" Quotes from Famous Books



... stenography; phonography^, pasigraphy^, Polygraphy^, logography^. copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist. calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand. cacography^, griffonage^, barbouillage^; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble &c v.; pattes de mouche [Fr.]; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers. stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... bureau, took out a sheaf of papers, some white and new, others yellow-grey with age, and yet others which were sheets of the ancient papyrus. The writing on these was in the old Hermetic character; of the rest some were in cursive Greek and some in Coptic. A few only were in English, and about half a dozen in Russian. He read them all with equal ease, and although he knew their contents almost by heart, he pored over them for a good half-hour with scarcely so much as a movement of his lips. ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith


Words linked to "Cursive" :   round hand, handwriting, running hand, script, written


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