"chirograph" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: chirographs [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French chirographe, from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos, “written with the hand”) χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|chirographe}} Middle French chirographe, {{der|en|grc|χειρόγραφος||written with the hand}} Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos, “written with the hand”), {{m|grc|χείρ||hand}} χείρ (kheír, “hand”), {{m|grc|γράφω||write}} γράφω (gráphō, “write”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} chirograph (plural chirographs)
  1. (law, historical) A kind of medieval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Law Translations (Translations): chirographe [masculine] (French), charte-partie [feminine] (French), Chirograph [neuter] (German), Teilurkunde [feminine] (German), chirografo [masculine] (Italian), chirographum [neuter] (Latin), cyrografe [masculine] (Old French), cyrograf [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-chirograph-en-noun-ivcchVGm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 25 1 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'Translations': 76 24 0
  2. (law, Catholicism) A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia. Categories (topical): Catholicism, Law
    Sense id: en-chirograph-en-noun-g~D5Jkn7 Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, law
  3. (obsolete) The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine". Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-chirograph-en-noun-WFCetCqy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: chirography Related terms: indenture

Inflected forms

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