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
As its bulk indicated, it was a lengthy epistle, and this length was more than doubled in reading matter by the fine chirography which covered its large pages.
From Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound by Clair, Victor St.
We shall not object to your chirography, so you must practise it often, and let me hear of your progress and well-doing.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
He opened one of the letters and read slowly, his brows drawn together in an effort to decipher his partner’s chirography.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
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