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Definition of Calligraph
1. Verb. Write beautifully and ornamentally.
Definition of Calligraph
1. Verb. To write using calligraphy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calligraph
Literary usage of Calligraph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays by the Late Mark Pattison: Sometime Rector of Lincoln College by Mark Pattison (1889)
"The truth was that the engraver could not compete with the Eastern calligraph in
that beauty of form which the amateur of Greek books had been taught to ..."
2. Obituary Prior to 1800: (as Far as Relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland) by William Musgrave, George John Armytage, Harleian Society (1901)
"Tho., calligraph. 1682. (MS.) „ Tho., Barbadoes mercht. 22 Feb. 1730. (HRC 22.
... (PS xlvii, 806 ; „ Thoe., calligraph. and mathemat. 1723. 1752. (MS. ..."
3. A Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindu'sta'ny Manuscripts, of the by Aloys Sprenger (1854)
"... a most exquisite calligraph particularly in ... who was equally a calligraph,
and a grandson of Myr Shah Myr who resided in ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... exemplars of all curious hands written," London, 1664, oblong 8vo. Prefixed is
Importait engraved by J.Chantry. In 1652 he published ' calligraph' ..."
5. The Ancestry of Our English Bible: An Account of Manuscripts, Texts by Ira Maurice Price (1920)
"... of Constantinople, the preparation of fifty manuscripts of the Bible, to be
written " on artificially wrought skins by skilful calligraph- ists. ..."