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
We got a specimen of his handwriting and compared it with the sheet of manuscript; the chirography was identical.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
When the occasion arrives for which the writing was obtained, each guest finds at his cover a card bearing his name and a printed delineation of his character formed from the chirography.
From Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Paul Pierce
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
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