calligraphical love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as calligraphic.

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  • adjective Alternative form of calligraphic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy

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Examples

  • The name of this illustrious saint is intimately connected with a most magnificent specimen of calligraphical art of the eighth century, preserved in the

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • The splendor of the ancient calligraphical productions of Greece, [79] and the still later ones of Rome, bear repeated testimony that the practice of this art had spread during the sixth century, if not earlier, to these powerful empires.

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • The _Christ among the Doctors_, dated 1506, and now in the Barberini Palace at Rome, might seem to have been painted chiefly to justify Giovanni Bellini's astonishment at the calligraphical painting of hair.

    Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

  • Dee had refused an hundred pounds for these calligraphical labours.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • His love of old classical _Manuscripts_ was properly and greatly beyond that of printed books: but each class was so marked and identified by his calligraphical MS. notes, that you were in a moment convinced his books were not purchased for the mere sake of gorgeous furniture.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • My own is of this kind, superbly bound, and priced with a neatness peculiar to the calligraphical powers of the 'forementioned friend.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • After they put out a personal ad, they get a prompt, superbly calligraphical answer from Mrs. Snow (Mariel Hemingway), a widow who's the epitome of Martha Stewart-sexy.

    Washington Square News RSS 2009

  • Whether students have a language focus, or are interested in more esoteric cultural offerings, such as close examination of carapace-bone-script, pictographs, or hard-tipped pen calligraphical works -- seminars typically seen only in a university setting --

    unknown title 2009

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