majuscule

Etymology

Borrowed from French majuscule, from Latin maiusculus.

noun

1. (countable) A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts.
2. (uncountable) Capital letters.
   Up to this point, Loveday appeared to be an exceptionally typical undergraduate, in that he wrote in majuscule what his fellows scribbled in lower case. 1951, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth, R. Hart-Davis, page 111
   But it is far from impossible that a scribe writing in minuscule should choose majuscule for a correction at this point: for example, if he had written u for n the only way to avoid all misunderstanding might be to indicate the correction with a capital letter. 1972, Wiener Studien, H. Böhlaus, page 89
   Many of these strips are palimpsest and bear earlier writing in majuscule and old minuscule. 1975, Aubrey Diller, The Textual Tradition of Strabo’s Geography: With Appendix, the Manuscripts of Eustathius’ Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes, A. M. Hakkert, page 47