The uncials of Companion of the most honourable Order of the Bath.
These uncials on a powder-barrel mean large-grain powder.
Gospels on purple vellum and in gold and silver uncials was exposed for sale in a shop window.
They have only recently been deciphered; they are in Latin uncials of the fifth century.
The letters areuncials (or capitals) without break, their form proving that the book was written in Egypt.
Tischendorf states that it is of the age of the later uncials (meaning the ninth century), but of higher critical importance than most of them, and much like Cod.
Bezae and Laudianus much changed to suit the Greek) is cursive and interlinear; the Greek uncials coarse and peculiar; the punctuation chiefly a stop at the end of the words, which have no breathings nor accents.
The Latin is exquisitely written, the Greek uncials are neat, but evidently the work of an unpractised hand, which soon changes from weariness.
A: the uncials are simple, square, regular and beautiful, of about the size of those in Codd.
Both are written in two columns, the uncials being bold, round or square, those of Q not a little the smaller.
Radzivil, with slightly sloping uncials [viii], of which Silvestre gives a facsimile (Paleogr.
The writing cannot be {38}mistaken for Roman uncials of the sixth century; it is plainly in Carolingian uncials of the latter half of the eighth.
The semi-uncials of the fifth and sixth centuries, which grew into the minuscules of the seventh and eighth, must have been as much needed in the first century as the sixth, but there is no trace of them.
The popular notion seems to be, that we are indebted for our knowledge of the true text of Scripture to the existing Uncials entirely; and that the essence of the secret dwells exclusively with the four or five oldest of those Uncials.
It is precisely this consideration which constrains us to pay supreme attention to the combined testimony of the Uncials and of the whole body of the Cursive Copies.
Those familiar words, vouched for by 16 uncials and all the cursives, are quite above suspicion.
The rest of the later Uncials are ordinarily found together in a large or considerable majority: whilst there is enough dissent to prove that they are independent witnesses, and that error was condemned, not ignored.
The real difference between Uncials and Cursives is patent to all people who have any knowledge of the subject.
The clumsy and tasteless character of some at least of the Old Uncials has come already under observation.
The large number of Uncials and Cursives of later ages must have had a goodly assemblage of accurate predecessors from which they were copied.
This fine distinction has been lost in the corrupt Uncials, while observed in the correct Uncialsand Cursives, which is all that the Dean's argument requires.
Papyrus, just as the Uncials themselves were, and that the prevalence for some centuries of Uncials took its rise from the local library of Caesarea.
This minute variety has been faithfully retained by uncials and cursives alike.
This is the reading of 14 uncials headed by A C, and of the whole body of the cursives: the reading of the Vulgate also and of the Syriac.
Such is the reading of 13 uncials headed by A and every known cursive: a few copies of the old Lat.
True, that four out of our five oldest uncials have come to light since the year 1628; but, who knows how to use them?
Mark's Text to so little purpose as not to have discovered that the six uncials on which you rely are the depositories of an abominably corrupt Recension of the second Gospel?
All that appears is that the five oldest uncials are not trustworthy witnesses; which singly, in the course of 12 verses separate themselves from their fellows 33 times: viz.
After this came the modified forms of Uncials caused by the admixture of minuscules.
The English half-uncials were modelled on the Irish half-uncials.
The English half-uncials also developed in the eighth and ninth centuries into a pointed hand.
The Text of our five oldest Uncials proved, by an induction of instances, to have suffered depravation throughout by the operation of the ancient Lectionary system of the Church (p.
He inquires after all the other uncials and all the cursive MSS.
We cannot resist the five great uncials when for once they are in harmony.
Bible, which are rare and always written in minuscules, never in uncials as are the Gospels.
I would further allege this text as one out of many proofs that the great uncials seldom or never conspire in exhibiting a really valuable departure from the later codices, unless supported by some of the best of the cursives themselves.
Beside this codex the writer has examined in the Georgian Library at Tiflis three very ancient codices of the Gospels, written in uncials on parchment.
Coptic chapters are written inuncials while the Ammonian Sections and Eusebian Canons are in cursive letters.
In the Library of the Lazareffski Institute in Moscow, written in large uncialson parchment, dated in the year 336 of the Armenian era = A.
This manner, when definitely formed, became what is now termed the minuscule manner; it began to prevail over uncials in a certain class of MSS.
However this may be, from the sixth to the eighth, or even 10th century, these uncials or partly rounded capitals prevail.
Fifteen of the uncials (including AD), and every known cursive, besides all the Latin and all the Syriac copies recognize the bracketed words.
Accordingly, A and all the uncials not already named, together with the whole body of the cursives, so read the place.
If it be not decisive of the point at issue to find such a torrent of primitive testimony at one with the bulk of the Uncials and Cursives extant, it is clear that there can be no Science of Textual Criticism.
Tischendorf notes that besides all the uncials which are furnished with accents and breathings (viz.
If we reject this position we must accept the evidence as giving the great uncials much the same secondary importance as Westcott and Hort gave to the later MSS.
There are no otheruncials equal in importance to the above.
However this may be, from the 6th to the 8th, or even 10th century, these uncials or partly-rounded capitals prevail.
This manner, when definitively formed, became what is now termed the minuscule manner; it began to prevail over uncials in a certain class of MSS.
When Uncials are used by themselves, their spacing may be wider (p.
The first difficulty may be met by keeping Uncials for special MSS.
Uncials are written on the same lines, and have to follow the same spacing (in spite of their longer stems).
These initials betray an utter decadence from the beautiful uncialsof the fifth and sixth centuries, seen in the St. Germain's Psalter, for example, now in the National Library at Paris.
It is said that this class of letters was first calleduncials from being made an inch (uncia) high, but this is mere tradition; the word is first used on Jerome's preface to the Book of Job.
No uncials have ever been found measuring more than five-eighths of an inch in height.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
