| 单词 | charter-hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmascharter-hand charter-hand n. = court-hand n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > legal court-handa1616 chancery-hand1660 law-hand1731 secretary1770 charter-hand1888 1888 J. H. Hessels in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 682/1 The court or charter hand was used for charters, title-deeds, papal bulls, &c. 1893 E. M. Thompson Handbk. Greek & Lat. Palaeogr. xix. 301 We find it convenient to treat the cursive or charter-hand as a separate branch of mediæval English writing apart from the literary or book-hand. 1954 N. Denholm-Young Handwriting in Eng. & Wales iv. 31 The term Court Hand..is nowadays used to denote the great variety of hands employed in everyday life, as opposed to book hands, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century... For a time the alternative..term Charter Hand was in vogue, chiefly perhaps among authors associated with the British Museum. < as lemmas |
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