of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries

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 ]

uppercase; capital A; great A; many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script

[ Syn: capital , great ]