Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who exercises or professes the art or business of writing; a writer; a transcriber.
- noun One who tells fortunes by examining the hand. Also
chirographist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.
- noun See
chirographist , 2. - noun (Old Eng. Law) an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
chirographist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As she was an excellent chirographer, with a clear head for business, and was paid by the piece and not by the month, she made money fast, as matters were then reckoned, and she was very liberal with it.
Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan
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Willie, because of his proficiency as a chirographer, always wrote the date line in the register.
Anderson Crow, Detective George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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The most unevenly printed, and therefore, I suppose, the primitial gem, is the _Tractatus de mendicitate spirituali_, in which not only rubiform capitals, but whole words, have been inserted by a chirographer.
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Upon the column immediately on his right hand hung, emblazoned with gold, and beautiful with all the art of the chirographer, the edict of Aurelian.
Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century William Ware 1824
Gammerstang commented on the word chirographer
(noun) - One who tells fortunes by examining the hand. Chirographic, chirographical, pertaining to chirography; the art of telling fortunes by examining the hand. --John Ridpath's Home Reference Library, 1898
April 22, 2018