Handwriting of the ordinary character (in which words are written in fall), as distinguished from shorthand.
1666. Pepys, Diary, 17 Nov. So as I can read it [a shorthand memorandum] to-morrow to Sir W. Coventry, and then come home, and Hewer read it to me while I take it in long-hand.
1712. F. T., Meth. Short-Hand, 25. Even in Long-Hand oftentimes equivocal Abbreviations are often written.
1864. Social Sci. Rev., 224. Many years must necessarily elapse before phonography will entirely supersede the longhand now in use.
1888. Times (weekly ed.), 7 Dec., 20/3. Did you take notes in longhand of the speeches?
attrib. 1884. Law Times, 24 May, 55/2. There are obvious reasons why a longhand note cannot always be relied upon to contain every material point in the evidence.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 22 Jan., 7/1. Sir Isaac Pitman’s efforts in the cause of the reform of longhand spelling.
