1.
[syn: longhand, running hand, cursive, cursive script]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. having successive letter joined together;
- Example: "cursive script"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cursive
adj 1: having successive letter joined together; "cursive
script"
n 1: rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and
are cursively connected within words without lifting the
writing implement from the paper [syn: longhand, running
hand, cursive, cursive script]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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