sign manual

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   the signature of a sovereign on an official document

   Broadersignature

Questions about sign manual

What does sign manual mean?

sign manual means "the signature of a sovereign on an official document".

Is sign manual a common word?

sign manual is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.