Meaning of ustav | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The earliest style of Cyrillic writing developed from Greek uncial in the late 9th century, predominant in the 11th–14th centuries.
2. A church statute prescribing daily prayer, feast days, and fasts.

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Examples

“The handsomely fashioned writing is of the type⟳ described as polu-ustav (semi-uncial), which is midway between the stately ustav and the cursive, . . . —A. Aronson, Rabindranath Through Western Eyes”

“While most of the service books are employed only in the conduct of public devotion, the psalter and the ustav are widely read⟳ works that are found in every household. —David Scheffel, In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta”

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