Designating something which is of a different shape or size from that usual for its kind. Designating a cursive Gothic script incorporating elements…

As the distinctive epithet of a style of handwriting used chiefly in legal documents from the 15th to the 17th cent. Hence applied to a kind of…

Gothic.

Writing and Printing. Used for some kind of written character (? resembling black letter).

Pertaining to Lombardy or the Lombards. Applied spec. to the style of architecture which prevailed in northern Italy from the 7th to the 13th…

= Lombardic, adj.

Designating ordinary handwriting, in which words are written out in full, as distinguished from shorthand or (now more usually) typescript or…

Palaeography. Also with capital initial. Of lettering: freely or irregularly formed; spec. designating one of the two styles of lettering used in…

Belonging to the Lombards or to Lombardy; Lombardic.

= Caroline, adj. 1a (spec. use).

Of or relating to cramped handwriting.

= Caroline, adj. 1a.

Of or pertaining to a medieval script principally of southern Italy.

Written by hand with separated letters in a style resembling printed text; cf. hand-print, v. 1.

Palaeography. (See quots.)

Designating a style of handwriting resembling print in using simple unjoined letterforms; opposed to cursive. Cf. sense A. 7b.