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

Since a number of centuries back, the Gallic chirography, which originally was the same as the Greek, began to be little by little modified in the course of time, and finally fell into disuse.

From The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Sue, Eug?ne

My darling Brother,— I owe you two good long letters, and am ashamed to think how long it is since you have seen my crabbed chirography.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

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