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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024un•ci•al (un′shē əl, -shəl),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguisticsdesignating, written in, or pertaining to a form of majuscule writing having a curved or rounded shape and used chiefly in Greek and Latin manuscripts from about the 3rd to the 9th centurya.d.
n. - Linguisticsan uncial letter.
- Linguisticsuncial writing.
- Linguisticsa manuscript written in uncials.
- Late Latin unciālēs (litterae) (Jerome) uncial (letters), plural of Latin unciālis weighing one twelfth of a libra (see uncia, -al1); literal sense is unclear
- 1640–50
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