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ˈcipherer [f. as prec. + -er.] 1. One who ciphers.
a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 256, I conceive those figures were Ciphers only, signifying his true Age; unless perchance the Cipherer..did otherwise mistake it. 2. One who writes or is skilled in writing in cipher.
1885C. Lowe Bismarck I. 526 A devoted band of privy-councillors, secretaries, cipherers, newspaper-hacks. So ˈcipherist.
1902Academy 1 Mar. 210/1 Lord Bacon was a literary man using a cypher, and not a cypherist blundering into immortal composition. |