† ˈtext-ˌletter Obs.
[cf. text-hand.]
A large or capital letter in handwriting.
| 1511 in Rel. Ant. I. 318 Lett yt stond iij. dayes..and then thou hast good ynke for texte letter. 1600 E. Blount Hosp. Incur. Fooles A iij, Where the renowmed folly of these men may be seene..written (as it were) in Text letters. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. iii. §3 To write it in such Text and Capital letters. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xx. 177 Hypocrisie would..in some Polititians be written in Court⁓hand, but in others in text-letters. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Text-Letters, the Capital Letters in all sorts of Hands that are usually written. |