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

Gill took from his pocket a neatly folded, daintily perfumed letter, the chirography of which was like steel-engraving.

From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various

Now and then one came, a little missive in angular chirography, telling how she longed to return to them, which they read and re-read by candlelight.

From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark

Experts in chirography are called by both sides.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues