单词 | text-hand |
释义 | text-handn. 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 the smaller or more cursive hand appropriate to the gloss, etc. (see also quot. 1688); (b) now usually applied to a school-hand written in lines about half an inch wide. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > large text-hand1542 text1598 large hand1688 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 224 He had taken vp..an instrumente written in greate letters of texte-hande. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 9 A Chronographycal Latine table..in a faire text hand texting vnto vs, how in the Scepterdome of Edward the Confessor, the sands first began to growe into sight at a low water. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 414/2 These are the form of the Letters..used by the Germans; and are termed the Text Hand Letters. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 475 It is called text-hand and text-letter because the text was ever wrote in a large hand and the comment in a small. As text-hand is both square and round, it means little more than a large hand of each sort. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. vi. 98 You seem wondrous slow in reading text hand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1542 |
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