The word 'cursive' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to handwriting in which all the letters are connected, or to refer to a style of typeface. For example: "The thank-you card was written in beautiful cursive writing."
Written towards the end of his life in England, where he was born, there is no hint of the monster in the curlicues of a neat, cursive hand.
One 14-year-old girl, Sara*, writes in an elegant, cursive hand and at length about her own aspirations and scenes from everyday life.
Rather than trying to recognise cursive handwriting, they force users to write one letter at a time; and they are sold as companion devices to desktop PCs, rather than jacks-of-all-trades.
He managed hieroglyphs, musical notation and the first cursive font, for Mamie Eisenhower, who had tired of writing out White House invitations.When his shop closed in 2001, after 65 years of business, it held a stock of 2m pieces of type.
Gujarātī uses a more cursive derivative.
The Egyptians created two cursive hands, the hieratic (priestly) and the demotic (a simplified form of hieratic suited to popular use), which were better adapted to papyrus.
C. 1360 Tabrīz, Iran 1420 Tabrīz, Iran Mīr ʿAlī of Tabriz, (born c. 1360, Tabriz, Iran died 1420, Tabriz) Islamic calligrapher of the Timurid Age (c. 1370 c. 1500) and a contemporary of Timur (Tamerlane); he was the inventor of the cursive nastaʿlīq script, traditionally regarded as the most elegant of the Persian scripts.
Besides the Brāhmī and Manichaean scripts, the Uighur used a script of their own, developed from the Sogdian cursive script.
From it were derived three scripts better suited to handwriting: uncial, which was essentially the classical capitals adapted to writing with pen on paper and similar to hand printing; and cursive and minuscule, which were running scripts similar to modern handwriting forms, with joined letters and considerable modification in letter shape.
Some scholars propounded the 6th century bce Greek alphabet as the prototype of the runes; others have suggested the Greek cursive alphabet of the last centuries bce.
The italic and the Gothic Schwabacher, which serves as a kind of italic to Fraktur (as black letter is known in Germany), both had their genesis in the fast, informal, cursive, generally ligatured letters developed by chancellery clerks to speed their work.
