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

Experts in chirography are called by both sides.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues

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

I have been poring over his old-time chirography, clear-cut and beautiful as copper-plate.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams