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• n  a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries
• a  relating to or written in majuscule letters (which resemble modern capitals)
  uncial letters

• As evidence of the fragments' early origins, Thiede notes that the handwriting on the Magdalen Papyrus is in a style known as uncial, which began to die out in the middle of the .
• Your movie critic is a chowderhead, stuffed with uncial tarradiddle.