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

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

Just as Freyer reached the door, a man hurried in with a letter, Freyer recognized the large well-known chirography on the envelope as he passed--Countess Wildenau's handwriting.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von