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 Edwards, Harry Stillwell

Indeed his favourite attitude when in repose showed his wonderful gift in chirography  as well as his affection for me.

From Mr. Munchausen  Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick

It is an interest of a peculiarly pleasant nature, if the epistle be perfumed, the envelope of limited dimensions, crested, cream-laid, and endorsed by a chirography of the “angular” type.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne