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单词 semi-uncial
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semi-uncialadj.n.

Etymology: semi- prefix 2a(a).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: semi-ˈuncial.
Palaeography.
Name of a style of writing intermediate between uncial and minuscule. Cf. half-uncial adj.
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1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 16 It is not well to write, as the Fashion now is, uncial or semiuncial Letters, to look like Pigs Ribs.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. x. 187 The letters are uncial or semiuncial, as somebody calls your large text-hand, and in size and perpendicularity resemble the ribs of a roasted pig.
1883 I. Taylor Alphabet v. ii. 173 [Irish script] is usually called the Irish uncial or semi-uncial.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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