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handwriting|ˈhændraɪtɪŋ|
[Cf. L. manuscriptum, Gr. χειρόγραϕον.]
1. Writing with the hand; manuscript as distinguished from print, etc.; the writing of a particular hand or person, or that pertaining to a particular time or nation.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lix. 16 Versis off his awin hand vrytting. 1639T. Brugis tr. Camus' Mor. Relat. 199 A young man that could artificially counterfeit all manner of hand writing. 1783Burke Rep. Comm. India Wks. XI. 215 A paper in his own handwriting. 1891Scott & Davey Historical Documents 46 The study of handwritings. 1893E. M. Thompson Handbk. Gk. & Lat. Palæogr. Pref. 7 As he grows up the child developes a handwriting of his own, diverging more and more from the models.
2. That which is written by hand; manuscript; a piece of written matter; a written document or note. Obs. or arch.
1534Tindale Col. ii. 14 He..hath put out the hand⁓writinge that was agaynst vs. 1535Coverdale Job i. 17 He gaue him the sayde weight of syluer vnder an hand⁓writinge. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 155 When hand writing and Epistles passe too and fro in absence and distance. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 66 To forge 4 parchment leaves of an olde handwriting. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest viii, Adeline took it up, and opening it perceived a hand-writing.
fig.1831Brewster Nat. Magic ii. (1833) 10 The optic nerve is the channel by which the mind peruses the hand⁓writing of Nature on the retina. 1928R. Fry in S.P.E. Tract xxxi. 331 Ecriture. Has a special sense in regard to painting, and refers to the rhythm of the handling of paint. Handwriting has hardly acquired this use, but perhaps might be adequate. 1959Sunday Times 10 May 19/5 Certain designers possess an accuracy of taste and a precision of expression which produce an identifiable handwriting... Dior's was a great handwriting. 1959Observer 20 Sept. 18/4 A style policy which is recognisably the ‘handwriting of the store’. 1960Observer 28 Feb. 5/3 Leonardo's left-handedness, his preoccupation with things observed..contribute to what Sir Kenneth [sc. Clark] calls his ‘handwriting’. 1961R. Seth Anat. Spying vi. 97 The individual's use of the morse-key is as distinctive as his handwriting—in fact, it is referred to as ‘handwriting’.
3. attrib., as handwriting expert, one who makes a study of handwriting in order to determine the authorship of disputed documents, to detect forgeries, etc.
1894Strand Mag. VIII. 293/1 The methods employed by handwriting experts. 1897Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 5/1 M. Bertillon, the famous handwriting expert, one of the witnesses at the Dreyfus trial. 1898Ibid. 17 Jan 7/2 The testimony of hand-writing ‘experts’. 1967G. B. Mair Girl from Peking iv. 52 Our handwriting experts say that they could have been written by the same person. |