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n. 1 (context palaeography English) The earliest style of Cyrillic writing developed from Greek uncial in the late 9th century, predominant in the 11th–14th centuries. 2 (context Eastern Orthodoxy English) A church statute prescribing daily prayer, feast days, and fasts.
Wikipedia
Ustav may refer to:
- Typikon, Byzantine liturgical calendar
- Uncial Cyrillic writing which was used from the 9th century to the 14th-15th centuries as the main Cyrillic type. Then evolutioned into poluustav ( semi-uncial, a type still in use for the Church Slavonic publishing), skoropis′ (tachygraphy, a predecessor of Cyrillic cursive) and finally to modern types of Cyrillic script. Since the 19th century, ustav-style Cyrillic fonts are used in academic publishing to reproduce oldest Slavonic texts.
Usage examples of "ustav".
Bohuslav Klima, Archeologicky Ustav CSAV, for the wonderful wine tasting in his own cellar from his vineyards near Doini Vestonice, but more for giving so generously of his lifetime of knowledge and information about that most important early site.
Jiri Svoboda, Archeologicky Ustav CSAV, for information on his startling new discoveries that add greatly to our knowledge about our Early Modem Human ancestors who lived more than two hundred fifty centuries ago when ice covered a quarter of the globe.