calligraph

[kal-i-graf, -grahf]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to produce by means of calligraphy.
The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.

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1880–85; back formation from calligraphy; calli-, -graph

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I tried to calligraph a card for his mother, but couldn't seem to control the pen well today.

A photographic calligraph, whose letters were so fine as to require a microscope to see them, was placed at a distance of three hundred feet.

The MS. was copied on vellum by Nicholas Jarry, the great calligraph of his time.

I'd love to finish the quilt and also calligraph some of my poems.

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