a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec.; also, Of a beautiful literary style. Hence Calligraphically adv.
1630. J. Taylor (Water Poet), Wks., III. 76. Dedicated … To the … Historiographicall Calligraphicall Relater and Writer … Sir Thomas Coriat, Knight of Troy.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., III. 2556/2. The Jews … may have perfected it calligraphically into the square character.
