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
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
She seized it again and pored over it with keen eyes; but its neat, cramped chirography revealed nothing.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
The early registers still exist in Stationers' Hall, near Paternoster Row, London, in quaint and almost undecipherable chirography, and some of them have been reissued in facsimile.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers
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