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chirographic - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
Pertaining to chirography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Of or pertaining to chirography.
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adjective Of or relating to chirography .
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"In chirographic transmission, the person of the scribe was kinetically, cognitively, and existentially bound up in the recreation of the text in a way that is incomprehensible in our era of mechanically mass-produced documents" p.225.
Review of Jesus, the Voice, and the Text James F. McGrath 2009
"In chirographic transmission, the person of the scribe was kinetically, cognitively, and existentially bound up in the recreation of the text in a way that is incomprehensible in our era of mechanically mass-produced documents" p.225.
Archive 2009-03-01 James F. McGrath 2009
Now in these ninety-nine folios (including the Preface, which is not numbered) are not only all the five varieties of chirography fac-similed above, but others partaking the character of some two of these, and all manifestly written by the same hand; which is shown no less by the phraseology than by the chirographic traits common to all the notes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
Writings evidencing a subsisting obligation were syngraphic or chirographic respectively, as they expressed a mutual or a unilateral obligation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
When I asked him whether the chirographic image appeared printed or written and in what type, he replied significantly enough, "As my writing-teacher wrote it."
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
Surveying them with a blending of chirographic pride, orthographic doubt, and the bashful consciousness of
Cressy Bret Harte 1869
Beyond the knowledge of possessing chirographic specimens of another language, neither party is wiser.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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