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Chirograph vs Chirography - What's the difference?

chirograph | chirography |

As nouns the difference between chirograph and chirography

is that chirograph is (legal|historical) a kind of mediaeval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others while chirography is calligraphy or penmanship.

chirograph

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia chirograph)
  • (legal, historical) A kind of mediaeval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others.
  • (legal, historical) A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
  • (obsolete) The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".
    • (Bouvier)

    See also

    * indenture (Webster 1913)

    chirography

    English

    (wikipedia chirography)

    Noun

    (-)
  • calligraphy or penmanship
  • * 1856 , Edward Parrish, An Introduction to practical pharmacy
    • A flourishing style of chirography is nowhere less in place than on a physician's prescription.
  • The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.