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sign-manual

sign-manual is the alternative form of sign manual.

Meaning of sign manual

Noun

sign manual (plural signs manual)

  1. An authentic signature; (especially), the signature of a sovereign, used to validate a formal document.
    • We were undeceived by the King's sign manual for our embodying, which was issued May 10th 1760.1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin, published 1990, page 124

Forms of sign-manual

pluralsigns-manual

Questions about sign-manual

What is sign-manual the alternative form of?
Sign-manual is the alternative form of sign manual.

Words near sign-manual in the dictionary

  1. sign up
  2. sign waver
  3. sign wavers
  4. sign-in
  5. sign-ins
  6. sign-manual
  7. sign-off
  8. sign-offs
  9. sign-on
  10. sign-on bonus
  11. sign-on bonuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sign-manual (page history and authors); sign manual (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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