Definition of Calligraph

1. Verb. Write beautifully and ornamentally.

Generic synonyms: Write
Derivative terms: Calligrapher, Calligraphist

Definition of Calligraph

1. Verb. To write using calligraphy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calligraph

callgirls
callgraph
callgraphs
calli
calli-
calliandra
callicarpa
callicarpas
callicarpenal
callid
callidities
callidity
calligraffiti
calligram
calligrams
calligraph (current term)
calligraphed
calligrapher
calligraphers
calligraphic
calligraphical
calligraphically
calligraphies
calligraphist
calligraphists
calligraphy
callimiconinae
callin'
calling
calling-card

Literary usage of Calligraph

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays by the Late Mark Pattison: Sometime Rector of Lincoln College by Mark Pattison (1889)
"The truth was that the engraver could not compete with the Eastern calligraph in that beauty of form which the amateur of Greek books had been taught to ..."

2. Obituary Prior to 1800: (as Far as Relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland) by William Musgrave, George John Armytage, Harleian Society (1901)
"Tho., calligraph. 1682. (MS.) „ Tho., Barbadoes mercht. 22 Feb. 1730. (HRC 22. ... (PS xlvii, 806 ; „ Thoe., calligraph. and mathemat. 1723. 1752. (MS. ..."

3. A Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindu'sta'ny Manuscripts, of the by Aloys Sprenger (1854)
"... a most exquisite calligraph particularly in ... who was equally a calligraph, and a grandson of Myr Shah Myr who resided in ..."

4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... exemplars of all curious hands written," London, 1664, oblong 8vo. Prefixed is Importait engraved by J.Chantry. In 1652 he published ' calligraph' ..."

5. The Ancestry of Our English Bible: An Account of Manuscripts, Texts by Ira Maurice Price (1920)
"... of Constantinople, the preparation of fifty manuscripts of the Bible, to be written " on artificially wrought skins by skilful calligraph- ists. ..."

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