Chirograph vs Chirography - What's the difference?
chirograph | chirography |
(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".
calligraphy or penmanship
* 1856 , Edward Parrish, An Introduction to practical pharmacy
The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.
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
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia chirograph)- (Bouvier)
See also
* indenture (Webster 1913)chirography
English
(wikipedia chirography)Noun
(-)- A flourishing style of chirography is nowhere less in place than on a physician's prescription.