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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cursive has 1 sense
- cursive(n = noun.communication) cursive script, longhand, running hand - rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper; Array has particulars: minuscule, copperplate, italic, round hand
is a kind of hand, handwriting, script
Adjective cursive has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
cursive, a. [LL. cursivus: cf. F. cursif See Cursitor.].
Running; flowing. [1913 Webster]
cursive, n.
- A character used in cursive writing. [1913 Webster]
- A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial. Shipley. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cursive, adj. & n.
--adj. (of writing) done with joined characters.
--n. cursive writing (cf. PRINT v. 4, UNCIAL).
--adj. (of writing) done with joined characters.
--n. cursive writing (cf. PRINT v. 4, UNCIAL).
Derivative
cursively adv.
Etymology
med.L (scriptura) cursiva f. L currere curs- run
THESAURUS
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
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