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Definition of half-uncial in English: half-uncialadjective Denoting a style of medieval letter showing features of both uncial and cursive script. Example sentencesExamples - Prentice is a historical face based on the Irish insular half-uncial and minuscule hand that was prevalent in the Isles and on the Continent in the centuries before the Carolingian Renascence.
- The half-uncial script was the nearest rival to the uncial script in popularity from the fifth to the seventh century.
- Most tickets produced with half-uncial typefaces were printed in Britain by Williamsons.
- The manuscript is written in Humanistic script, and as such imitates the half-uncial and Caroline minuscule scripts.
- Ancient Celtic half-uncial script is beautiful, but generally inappropriate for contemporary use.
noun A half-uncial letter. Example sentencesExamples - The inscription is so much weathered that only parts of the first and last lines in half-uncials can be read.
- Irish half-uncials were especially beautiful, as evident in the famous Book of Kells (800?).
- Historically uncials and half-uncials mark the transition to the development of a separate minuscule alphabet.
- Uncials were used from the 4th to 9th century as script; they continued to be used later as capitals with lowercase half-uncials and with gothic lettering.
- The elongated Celtic characters, called ‘insular half-uncials,’ are done with a quill.
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