chirography
noun
handwriting; penmanship.
chirographical
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a word derived from
chirography.
Example Sentences
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To clinch their point, the unromantic authors enlisted Louis A. Waters, a chirographical gumshoe, whose workaday job is special consultant in forgery cases for the New York state police.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is quite as interesting as the suggestion that through the same thumb-print method in commercial and banking houses the forger is likely to become a creature without occupation and chirographical means of support.
From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Jerome Buell Lavay
How this might have struck a chirographical expert he did not know.
From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Bret Harte
You say so, teacher, while going through the daily drill of your A B C regiments, your multiplication table platoons, and your chirographical battalions.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
