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minuscule (medicine)


minuscule


1. Any very small, minute object.

2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters.

Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules. "These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials." (I. Taylor (The Alphabet))

Origin: L. Minusculus rather small, fr. Minus less: cf. F. Minuscule.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Pride's Purge (iou)



Pride's Purge noun phr. E18.
[from Thomas Pride (see below) + -'S1 + PURGE noun.]
Hist. The exclusion or arrest in 1648 of about 140 Members of Parliament thought likely to vote against the trial of Charles I, by soldiers under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride (d. 1658).