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 renowned 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.
