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chīrŏgrăphum , i, n. (access. form * chīrŏgrăphus , i, m., sc. libellus or codex, Fulvius ap. Quint. 6, 3, 100 Spald., together with chirographum, Quint. ib. 5, 13, 8; and chīrŏgrăphon , i, n., Sid. Carm. 16, 56), = χειρόγραφον.
I. One's own handwriting, autograph; pure Lat. manus (in good prose; “freq. in Cic.): extrema pagella pupugit me tuo chirographo,” Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3; Planc. ib. 10, 21, 3; Cic. Phil. 1, 7, 16; 2, 4, 8: “neque utar meo chirographo neque signo,” id. Att. 2, 20, 5: “imitari,” id. N. D. 3, 30, 74 al.—
II. Meton (abstr. pro concr.), that which is written with one's own hand: credidi chirographis ejus (assurances in his own handwriting), Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 1; “so,” Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3; id. Brut. 80, 277; id. Fam. 12, 1, 2; id. Phil. 1, 7, 16; Quint. 9, 2, 73; Suet. Aug. 87; id. Tib. 6; id. Calig. 24.—
B. In the lang. of business, t. t., a bond, surety, or obligation under one's own hand (diff. from syngrapha, q. v.; not found with this meaning in Cic.), Gai Inst. 3, 134; Dig. 20, 1, 26; 49, 14, 3; Suet. Caes. 17; id. Calig. 12; id. Dom. 1; Gell. 14, 2, 7.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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