A fine large hand in writing: (a) originally one of the larger and more formal hands in which the text of a book was often written, as distinct from…

Short for text-hand, n. Also attributive. See also church text, n., germane, adj. n. text. chapel-text, an elaborated kind of church-text.

cursive handwriting of large size; cf. small hand, n. 1 text-hand, n.