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
Now and then one came, a little missive in angular chirography, telling how she longed to return to them, which they read and re-read by candlelight.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark
They are law papers she is copying, in that clear, legible chirography.
From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes
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
