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单词 chirography
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Definition of chirography in English:

chirography

noun kʌɪˈrɒɡrəfikīˈräɡrəfē
mass noun
  • Handwriting, especially as distinct from typography.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As can be seen, even the adequate classification of chirography in relation to other picture signs, or other tracings on surfaces, remains a task for the future.
    • The picturesque, to be sure, is equally deficient in his chirography and in his poetical productions.
    • In spite of the clear chirography, some labor to read such a letter was required, for the crossed characters were confusing to the human eye, which can read in only one direction at a time.
    • I will briefly touch upon that in this paper to establish a theoretical basis for the generated electronic chirography project.
    • It does, indeed contribute to render spoken discourse more effective, but so does elegant chirography or clear typography improve the effectiveness of written thought.
    • There can be no doubt that his chirography has been modified, like that of Paulding, by strong adventitious circumstances - for it appears to retain but few of his literary peculiarities.
    Synonyms
    handwriting, hand, script, penmanship, pen, print, printing, longhand, calligraphy

Derivatives

  • chirographic

  • adjective
    • The residually oral subcultures of the chirographic culture were composed of residually tribal people.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As Caesar complains, a move to a chirographic culture changes how that culture views and uses memory.
      • That is, all knowledge is mediated via either typographic or chirographic words on a page, or even on a screen.
      • Brian Stock describes the chirographic culture as the ‘textual community’.
      • In Orality and Literacy, Ong is careful to trace distinctions between oral, chirographic, manuscript, and print culture.

Rhymes

autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography
 
 

Definition of chirography in US English:

chirography

nounkīˈräɡrəfē
  • Handwriting, especially as distinct from typography.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It does, indeed contribute to render spoken discourse more effective, but so does elegant chirography or clear typography improve the effectiveness of written thought.
    • I will briefly touch upon that in this paper to establish a theoretical basis for the generated electronic chirography project.
    • In spite of the clear chirography, some labor to read such a letter was required, for the crossed characters were confusing to the human eye, which can read in only one direction at a time.
    • As can be seen, even the adequate classification of chirography in relation to other picture signs, or other tracings on surfaces, remains a task for the future.
    • There can be no doubt that his chirography has been modified, like that of Paulding, by strong adventitious circumstances - for it appears to retain but few of his literary peculiarities.
    • The picturesque, to be sure, is equally deficient in his chirography and in his poetical productions.
    Synonyms
    handwriting, hand, script, penmanship, pen, print, printing, longhand, calligraphy
 
 
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