Word Meanings - CHIROGRAPHIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
Related words: (words related to CHIROGRAPHIST)
- EXAMINABLE
Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon. - EXAMINING
Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee. - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - EXAMINANT
1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott. 2. One who is to be examined. H. Prideaux. - WRITERSHIP
The office of a writer. - EXAMINATOR
An examiner. Sir T. Browne. - EXAMINATE
A person subjected to examination. Bacon. - EXAMINATION
1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment. 2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate - EXAMINEE
A person examined. - EXAMINER
One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc. - EXAMINE
1. To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, - CHIROGRAPHER
1. One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing. 2. See chirographist, 2. Chirographer of fines , an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines. - ENGROSSER
1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters. 2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke. - EXAMINERSHIP
The office or rank of an examiner. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - PREEXAMINATION
Previous examination. - UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer. - REEXAMINABLE
Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story. - REEXAMINE
To examine anew. Hooker. - CROSS-EXAMINE
To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent. - PREEXAMINE
To examine beforehand. - NEWS-WRITER
One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay. - TYPEWRITER
1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument. - SELF-EXAMINANT
One who examines himself; one given to self-examination. The humiliated self-examinant feels that there is evil in our nature as well as good. Coleridge.