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cryptograph

[ krip-tuh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

  1. a system of secret writing; cipher.
  2. a device for translating clear text into cipher.


cryptograph

/ -ˌɡrÉ‘Ëf; ˈkrɪptəʊˌɡræf /

noun

  1. something written in code or cipher
  2. a code using secret symbols ( cryptograms )
  3. a device for translating text into cipher, or vice versa
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of cryptograph1

First recorded in 1635–45; crypto- + -graph
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Still, the few figures etched on old cemetery headstones are like cryptographs, offering clues to visitors trying to crack the mystical code of how lives were lived.

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Natural history is not a cryptograph to be deciphered, it is a series of facts and incidents to be observed and recorded.

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I mean to have a try at our cryptograph.

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Golconda: a place near Hyderabad, India, noted for its diamonds. cryptographs: from two Greek words meaning hidden and write.

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Without noticing my abstraction, the Professor began reading the puzzling cryptograph all sorts of ways, according to some theory of his own.

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