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Chirograph vs Chorograph - What's the difference?

chirograph | chorograph |

As nouns the difference between chirograph and chorograph

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 chorograph is an instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

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)

    chorograph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
    • (Webster 1913)