Definition of Chirography

1. Noun. Beautiful handwriting.

Exact synonyms: Calligraphy, Penmanship
Generic synonyms: Hand, Handwriting, Script
Derivative terms: Calligrapher, Calligraphical, Calligraphist, Penman

Definition of Chirography

1. n. The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.

Definition of Chirography

1. Noun. calligraphy or penmanship ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chirography

1. [n -PHIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirography

chirms
chiro
chiro-
chirobrachialgia
chirognomy
chirognostic
chirograph
chirographer
chirographers
chirographic
chirographical
chirographies
chirographist
chirographists
chirographs
chirography (current term)
chirokinesthesia
chirological
chirologist
chirologists
chiromance
chiromancer
chiromancers
chiromancies
chiromancy
chiromantic
chiromantical
chiromegaly
chironomic

Literary usage of Chirography

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Rhetoric: A Course in Plain Prose Composition by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer (1898)
"If an instructor has to puzzle over the chirography of a written composition, ... chirography.—Almost any writer can, with due care, write legibly. ..."

2. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"chirography. Burritt. To correspondents we wish that elevated attainment of ... An unintelligible, slovenly chirography would seem to be the original sin of ..."

3. History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: Including Lynnfield, Saugus by Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall (1865)
"... 'but fortunately the value of a sign manual does not depend on the chirography. It is not wonderful that such signatures put Andros in mind of scratches ..."

4. Literary and Theological Review by Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon (1835)
"... but the chirography and arduous literary labour in revising and retouching, are by a medical gentleman, late of the army, who has published valuable ..."

5. The Bibliography of Vermont: Or, A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating in by Marcus Davis Gilman (1897)
"... her constant and continued service in behalf of the Bibliography of Vermont ; the compositors especially appreciate her clear and beautiful chirography. ..."

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