chirography
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- chirographer noun
- chirographic adjective
- chirographical adjective
Etymology
Origin of chirography
Example Sentences
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Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not its content, but its chirography: stubborn, insecure, self-centered, secretive, ungenerous and frigid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Visitants of the school expressed surprise at the neatness of their needle-work, and chirography.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
His chirography actually and undeniably exhibited the same general characteristics, only intensified and with less certainty of stroke and pen-pressure.
From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny
My darling Brother,— I owe you two good long letters, and am ashamed to think how long it is since you have seen my crabbed chirography.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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