(n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The higher incidence in early grades was related to the earlier introduction of cursive style writing in the German sample.
(2) Most of patients with cursive seizures showed temporal lobe epileptiform discharge in EEG.
(3) At the end of the first year or the beginning of the second, they are then introduced to the cursive script and its loopier letters, which join together in a prescribed fashion.
(4) Seven cases of cursive and two cases of gelastic manifestations of epileptic seizures are presented.
(5) Reading and writing performance was observed in 30 adult aphasic patients to determine whether there was a significant difference when stimuli and manual responses were varied in the written form: cursive versus manuscript.
(6) In Experiment 1, response deprivation was used to improve the cursive writing of six EMR children, using math as the contingent response.
(7) Number of words correctly read, number of words correctly written, and number of letters correctly written in the proper sequence were tallied for both cursive and manuscript writing tasks for each patient.
(8) They will continue to teach block capitals, but the subtleties of cursive writing will no longer be transmitted outside the elite.
(9) Repeating endless cursive letters along wide-spaced, pale blue lines.
(10) Patients were asked to read aloud 10 words written cursively and 10 words written in manuscript form.
(11) Both seem to have emerged in the Bronze Age, when patterns of artistry and cursive writing became fixed; but, by the time the alphabet was invented, the patterns became complicated by human perversity and racial rivalries, with an interesting, often damaging, legacy to the civilisations and cultures that followed.
(12) The effects of EMG biofeedback training on cursive handwriting were investigated for 4 girls and 5 boys in Grade 4.
(13) When the most prominent ictal symptom in an epileptic seizure is laughing or running the condition has been termed respectively gelastic or cursive epilepsy.
(14) Grace Owens of Brunswick, Georgia, wearing a hat that read “deplorable” in cursive script and a T-shirt that proclaimed America First, thought neither candidate won the debate.
(15) The collection includes 14 notebooks filled with research notes in small cursive handwriting, letters to Einstein's contemporaries on his physics research, and a handwritten explanation of his theory of relativity and its summarising equation e=mc2.
(16) Chelsea Manning joins Twitter and gets over 1,000 followers before posting Read more In the tweeted note, written in small cursive handwriting in black ink on lined paper, she said that she had asked a friend, Trevor FitzGibbon , a few weeks ago to set up the Twitter account.
(17) Written towards the end of his life in England, where he was born, there is no hint of the monster in the curlicues of a neat, cursive hand.
(18) They were then asked to write on dictation 10 words responses using cursive writing and 10 words using manuscript writing.
(19) The basic task was to write the words 'poppy' and 'wood' cursively five times, the first time in their normal size and then with four size transformations.
(20) The children only began working on them yesterday but they’re already miniature masterpieces – the pictures are bright and intricate, the writing is elegant cursive and the stories are dramatic, with speech bubbles and exclamation marks.
Hieratic
Definition:
(a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Example Sentences:
(1) And beyond the physical separation, a further more insidious separation took place, where one group became artists, and the other became non-artists; where the hieratically appointed initiates talked down to the lay people.
(2) The latter are big quasi-octagonal panels that might have been carpentered for some hieratic medieval interior.
(3) The sculpture is flat, linear, hieratic, self-consciously primitive, the baby enclosed protectively in its mother's robes.