The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chirography \Chi*rog"ra*phy\, n.
The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.
The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 calligraphy or penmanship 2 The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.
Wikipedia
Chirography (from the Greek derived (cheir-'/'cheiro-) Latin chiro- (similar to the Hittite word kesar) meaning hand (i.e. chiropractic)) is the study of penmanship and handwriting in all of its aspects.
Chirography (from the Greek derived (cheir-'/'cheiro-) Latin chiro- (similar to the Hittite word kesar) meaning hand (i.e. chiropractic)) is the study of writing by hand in all of its aspects.
Chirography may also refer to:
- Penmanship, the technique of writing with the hand and a writing instrument
- Calligraphy, the art of fancy lettering, the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner
- Handwriting, a person's particular style of writing by pen or a pencil
Usage examples of "chirography".
I might guess the writers sometimes by the handwriting, but there is more trouble taken to disguise the chirography than I choose to take to identify it as that of any particular member of our company.
Number Seven's manuscript, which showed marks of my corrections here and there, furnished good examples of the chirography of persons with ill-mated cerebral hemispheres.
There were cryptic formulae and diagrams in his and other hands which Ward now either copied with care or had photographed, and one extremely mysterious letter in a chirography that the searcher recognised from items in the Registry of Deeds as positively Joseph Curwen's.
Before servants he seldom hid any paper which he might by studying, since he rightly assumed that Curwen's intricate and archaic chirography would be too much for them.
Cecil Granthum, of Gilroy, Ohio--until Slim rode up and handed the Little Doctor a letter addressed in that bold, up-and-down writing that Chip considered a little the ugliest specimen of chirography he had ever seen in his life.