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Chirography   Listen
noun
Chirography  n.  
1.
The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.
2.
The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chirography" Quotes from Famous Books



... more cheap printer's paper on which to inscribe the girlish handwriting (with the pointed letters and the big capitals) which my father, with patient pains, had caused to be taught me by a queer old travelling-master with an idea. Professor Phelps, by the way, had an exquisite chirography, which none of his children, to his ...
— McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. • Various

... our investigations with this Medium we early discovered the character of the writing to be twofold, and the difference between the two styles to be striking. In one case the communication written on the slate by the Spirits was general in its tone, legible in its chirography, and usually covered much of the surface of the slate, punctuation being attended to, the i's dotted, and the t's crossed. In the second, when the communication was in answer to a question addressed to a Spirit the writing was clumsy, rude, scarcely ...
— Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University • The Seybert Commission

... is in a bold, masculine hand, clear, legible, and uniform. If there be such a thing as judging the character of the writer by the chirography in the present instance, there was decision, firmness, bordering on self-will, and resistance to opposition. The letter ...
— Lady Rosamond's Secret - A Romance of Fredericton • Rebecca Agatha Armour

... generally consecrated to their peculiar mysteries. In a dissertation on this subject, that celebrated antiquarian (conditor stromatum), Clement, of Alexandria, teaches in his writings, thus: 'Those who are taught Egyptian, first, indeed, learn the grammar and chirography called letter-writing, that is, which is apt for ordinary correspondence; secondly, however, that used by the priests, called sacred writing, to commemorate sacred things; the last also, hieroglyphic, meaning sacred sculpture, one of the first elements ...
— Mysticism and its Results - Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy • John Delafield



Words linked to "Chirography" :   calligraphy, penmanship, handwriting, hand



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