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
Back, therefore, he hastened to the Imperial, where, however, his search for familiar chirography was fruitless.
From Final Proof or the Value of Evidence by Ottolengui, R.
He was a bright, active young man, but his chirography resembled, in illegibility if not in form, the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
