Ustav Definition

noun

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

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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(Eastern Orthodoxy) A church statute prescribing daily prayer, feast days, and fasts.

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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Other Word Forms of Ustav

Noun

Singular:
ustav
Plural:
ustavs

Origin of Ustav

  • From Old Church Slavonic оуставъ (ustavŭ).

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Ustav Sentence Examples

  • Not the least valuable of the gifts of the " tsar emancipator," Alexander II., to Russia was the judicial System system established by the statute (Sudebni Ustav) of the 10th of November 1864.

  • The ustav, or ordinance of 1722, heralded this unheard-of innovation.

  • Time-honoured custom had hitherto reckoned primogeniture in the male line as the best 'title to the Russian crown; in the ustav of 1722 Peter denounced primogeniture in general as a stupid, dangerous, and even unscriptural practice of dubious origin.

  • The ustav was but a preliminary step to a still more sensational novelty.

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Words Starting With

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