Chirography
[kahy-rog-ruh-fee] /kaɪˈrɒg rə fi/
noun
1.
handwriting; penmanship.
/kaɪˈrɒɡrəfɪ/
noun
1.
another name for calligraphy
n.
“handwriting,” 1650s, from chiro- + -graphy. Chirograph “formal written legal document” is attested from late 13c. in Anglo-French, from Latin chirographum, from Greek kheirographia “written testimony.”
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