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
He returned within a minute with a cabinet-size photo upon the front of which was written, “From Loris, January ’18,” in the vertical chirography much practiced by social buds.
From Whispering Wires by Leverage, Henry
Visitants of the school expressed surprise at the neatness of their needle-work, and chirography.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
It becomes me to have a fine pen, and to try and be rather refined than otherwise in my chirography!
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
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