Definitions for uncials

uncials un·ci·al

Spelling: [uhn-shee-uh l, -shuh l]
IPA: /ˈʌn ʃi əl, -ʃəl/

Uncials is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in uncials (acilnsu).

Definitions for uncials

noun

  1. an uncial letter.
  2. uncial writing.
  3. a manuscript written in uncials.

adjective

  1. designating, 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 century a.d.

Origin of uncials

1640-50; Late Latin unciālēs (litterae) (Jerome) uncial (letters), plural of Latin unciālis weighing one twelfth of a libra (see uncia, -al

Examples for uncials

The uncial characters shown here (a) afford one of the best examples61 for practice in writing with the reed or quill.

Accordingly, he substituted 'whatsoever place' for 'whosoever': another has bequeathed to us in four uncial MSS.

As uncial and half-uncial characters were still used for a good number of MSS.

It was a sixth-century copy of the Book of Genesis, written in uncial letters and illustrated, we are told, with 250 pictures.

Kneeling down, we read upon the lintel the Greek inscription in uncial letters, cut when the Mosque was a Christian church.

First, the uncial, that is, those written in capital letters.

G is written in uncial script, with no division between words but with indentation of the pentameters.

The first in uncial Greek was by Tisisthenes, the son to whom the writing was addressed.

Those of you who are judges of graphic character will see the nature of the letters; they are capital, or uncial letters.

They are both written in quarto, in uncial letters and double columns.

Word Value for uncials
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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