Cursive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cursive \Cur"sive\ (k?r"s?v), a. [LL. cursivus: cf. F. cursif
     See {Cursitor}.]
     Running; flowing.
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     {Cursive hand},a running handwriting.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cursive \Cur"sive\, n.
     1. A character used in cursive writing.
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     2. A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in
        small, connected characters or in a running hand; --
        opposed to uncial. --Shipley.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cursive
       adj : having successive letter joined together; "cursive script"
       n : rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and
           cursively connected within words without lifting the
           writing implement from the paper [syn: {longhand}, {running
           hand}, {cursive script}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "cursive":
     Italian hand, Spencerian writing, autograph, autographic,
     block letter, bold hand, book hand, calligraphic, chancery hand,
     chirographic, copperplate hand, cursive hand, effortless,
     engrossed, flowing, fluent, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic,
     graphometric, holograph, holographic, in longhand, in shorthand,
     in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, law hand, lettering,
     longhand, majuscule script, manuscript, minuscule script, on paper,
     penciled, penned, printed, printing, round hand, running,
     scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, smooth, stylographic,
     text hand, uncial, written