chirography
noun
handwriting; penmanship.
chirographic
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a word derived from
chirography.
Example Sentences
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Alas! posterity would be sure to conclude that they were forgeries all; that no chirographic relic of the sublime poet Glendinning survived to their miserable times.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
If Bacon wrote those grand inspiring lines At which alternately man weeps and laughs, Who was it penned those chirographic vines We know these times as Shakespeare’s autographs?
From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by John Kendrick Bangs
Beyond the knowledge of possessing chirographic specimens of another language, neither party is wiser.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
When I asked him whether the chirographic image appeared printed or written and in what type, he replied significantly enough, ``As my writing-teacher wrote it.''
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
