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

The chirography of the girl, who could not write at the time of her mother's death, is precisely similar to hers—as similar as it is unlike that of the sister by whom she was educated.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

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 Bowker, Richard Rogers