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

The essay was indited in the lawless style of chirography known as the “grass character,” and handed to the purchaser to be copied.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

They are law papers she is copying, in that clear, legible chirography.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes

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