uncial

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And a word, written in black letter, uncial, Copperplate Script, Roman capitals, or even the “Star Wars” font by a professional, has all the virtues of those far more complicated handmade things.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2015

But visitors are just as likely to be impressed by the book’s ravishing script, a bold fusion of Roman and Celtic lettering, known as English uncial, that jumps right off the page.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2014

As evidence of the fragments' early origins, Thiede notes that the handwriting on the Magdalen Papyrus is in a style known as uncial, which began to die out in the middle of the 1st century.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is easy to see how the ancient practice of writing uncial letters without leaving a space between the words must have increased the risk of such variations as the foregoing.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Uncial, un′shal, adj. applied to that variety of majuscule writing, with large round characters, used in ancient MSS.—n. an uncial letter, uncial writing: a MS. written in uncials.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various