chirography
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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
But his head still swam; and when he tried to read it the angular chirography danced under his eyes, describing such curious antics that he was driven at last to ask her aid.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
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 Richard Rogers Bowker
Visitants of the school expressed surprise at the neatness of their needle-work, and chirography.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
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