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Manuscript vs Majusculae - What's the difference?

manuscript | majusculae |

As nouns the difference between manuscript and majusculae

is that manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced while majusculae is capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.

As an adjective manuscript

is handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

manuscript

Adjective

(-)
  • handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts , […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
  • Abbreviations

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    Derived terms

    * manuscriptal * manuscription

    Synonyms

    * handwrit * autograph * handwriting

    majusculae

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier
  • See also

    * minusculae (Webster 1913) ----