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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
majuscule
    adj 1: of or relating to a style of writing characterized by
           somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
           [ant: minuscular, minuscule]
    2: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts
       are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great,
       majuscule]
    n 1: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first
         letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes
         for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and
         for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in
         the upper half of the type case and so became known as
         upper-case letters" [syn: capital, capital letter,
         uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant:
         lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small
         letter]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Majuscule \Ma*jus"cule\, n. [Cf. F. majuscule. See
   Majusculae.]
   A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient
   manuscripts. See Majusculae.
   [1913 Webster]

   Majuscule writing, writing composed wholly of capital
      letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe
      from the third to the sixth century.
      [1913 Webster]

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