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A style of writing using uncial letters.
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A letter in this style.
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A manuscript in this style.
Examples of uncials in a Sentence
Such of the inscriptions on their coins as are not in Greek or an Indian language are in a form of Persian written in Greek uncials.
There are not enough letters to cover the uncials, the same letter has to serve for various fragments which are quite unconnected except by the accident of simultaneous discovery, and no information is given about the MS. referred to.
Formerly the Greek uncials, which go back to the 4th century, were regarded as the most important source of evidence, and were supposed to have the decisive vote; but now it is becoming plain that still more important, though unfortunately much less complete, is the evidence of the versions and of quotations by early writers.
The only possible sources of evidence, apart from the discovery of fresh MSS., are the versions, and they do not point to existence in the 2nd or 3rd century of texts agreeing with the great uncials.
It is also possible to argue, as WH did, on the same side, that the purest form of text was preserved in Alexandria, from which the oldest uncials are directly or indirectly derived, but this argument has been weakened if not finally disposed of by the evidence of Clement of Alexandria.
Hence for all practical purposes these late cursives must be treated as if they were among our older uncials.
Some of the later uncials, however, contain earlier texts to a greater or less degree; and these deserve a separate mention.
This manuscript was written in the fourth century, and is consequently as old as the oldest Greek uncials of the Bible.
Dean Burgon knew what these old ancient uncials were.
The handwriting, as shewn in the specimen, exhibits the sloping uncials which are characteristic of the eighth and ninth centuries.
One of the best minuscules of the Acts, ranking in quality with the leading uncials.
Dean Burgon knew what these old ancient Uncials were.