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
Girls with soul-and-body weariness writ across their faces in the sure chirography of hair-line wrinkles stood pelican-fashion, first on one leg and then on the other, to alternate the strain.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie
The essay was indited in the lawless style of chirography known as the “grass character,” and handed to the purchaser to be copied.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.
But apart from the question of chirography one other manifestation constantly reminded Mortmain of his crime.
From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny
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