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ustav

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The earliest style of Cyrillic writing developed from Greek uncial in the late 9th century, predominant in the 11th–14th centuries.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, epigraphy, geography, history, human-sciences, literature, media, natural-sciences, palaeography, paleogeography, paleography, paleontology, publishing, sciences

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

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noun

Meaning 2

A church statute prescribing daily prayer, feast days, and fasts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy

Examples

  • 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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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic оуставъ (ustavŭ). Cognate of устав in modern Bulgarian and modern Russian.