EGAVE

chirograph

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
  3. noun The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".

Similar words

chalcograph cartulary cerograph chrysograph diplograph chromograph polygraph planigraph protectograph opisthograph

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