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.