paraph

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par·aph

(păr′əf, pə-ră′)

A flourish made after or below a signature, originally to prevent forgery.

[French paraphe, from Old French paraffe, abbreviated signature, from Medieval Latin paraphus, paragraph sign, short for paragraphus; see paragraph.]

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paraph

(ˈpærəf)

(Law) a flourish after a signature, originally to prevent forgery

[C14: via French from Medieval Latin paraphus, variant of paragraphus paragraph]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

paraph

- As a verb, to divide into paragraphs; the noun can mean a flourish made after a signature, especially to make it unique.

paraph

a flourish or other embellishment made after a signature, either as idiosyncrasy or to protect against forgery.

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paraph - a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery)

signature - your name written in your own handwriting

flourish - an ornamental embellishment in writing

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The actor, the "I" that tells it, becomes a state of being ("am with him"), and the dash is thus imbued with an authorial presence.(15) This paraph with its explicit link to authorial presence occurs again, only three sentences later, where, significantly, the "I" in the clause that follows it is not only underlined once but twice; the "I" (Henry James) is emphatically linked to the horizontal line.

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The scribe Of (2) had entered a sermon number in the centre of the top margins (both recto and verso), usually adding a paraph and the word `sermo' on the page where a new sermon begins.

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Thus we do not know if this copy had a title (which could have appeared either on a preceding folio or as an explicit); it is uncertain whether the first letter of each line was a capital (the answer is probably not, since the only surviving complete line (50 in Cotton Julius; 36 in Rawlinson), the first of a new stanza, begins with a lower-case m, although it is possible that the A of As which opens the poem had special treatment, if only in size); and we do not know whether the beginning of each stanza was marked by a paraph in the inner margin (in addition to the line drawn a little way across the page from the inner margin between each stanza).