sign manual

noun,plural signs manual.

a personal signature, especially that of a sovereign or official on a public document.

Origin of sign manual

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Words Nearby sign manual

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How to use sign manual in a sentence

It was therefore obligatory that purchasers should know his work, that in fact his sign manual should be always present.
Antonio Stradivari | Horace William Petherick
It was, therefore, more in the construction and workmanship then, that the sign manual was perceptible.
Antonio Stradivari | Horace William Petherick
A deed, with the royal sign-manual, conveyed Vauvert to the monks of St Bruno.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 | Various
"Chegonoe" witnesses the sign manual of his Sachem, who was present, on the confirmation deed of July 4, 1657.
John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records | William Wallace Tooker
Before this vision there rose up in him the ardent impulse to immediate effort which is the sign manual of the man of action.
The Squirrel-Cage | Dorothy Canfield

British Dictionary definitions for sign manual

sign manual

noun

law a person's signature in his own hand, esp that of a sovereign on an official document

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