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 (1713), 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.
