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cryptogram|ˈkrɪptəgræm|
[mod. f. Gr. κρυπτός hidden + γράµµα writing, a letter, but not on Greek analogies: see -gram. So mod. F. cryptogramme.]
A piece of cryptographic writing; anything written in cipher, or in such a form or order that a key is required in order to know how to understand and put together the letters.
1880Times 28 Dec. 10/1 In every case of deciphering—whether it be of a Cypriote inscription of a cryptogram in the agony column. 1888I. Donnelly (title), The Great Cryptogram: Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays.
Hence cryptoˈgramic a., pertaining to or of the nature of a cryptogram. So also cryptograˈmmatic, -ical adjs.; cryptoˈgrammic a. = cryptogramic a.; cryptoˈgrammatist; cryptoˈgrammist = cryptogrammatist.
1884Bazaar 22 Dec. 666/2 Every vowel and consonant in the words of the cryptogramic sentence was represented. 1888Scott. Leader 4 July 4 Mr. Ignatius Donnelly..with his cryptogramic theory of Shakspere.
1895Daily News 17 Jan. 6/4 To offer insoluble conundrums in cryptogrammatic ellipsis. 1962C. L. Wrenn in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 314 The cryptogrammatic runes and oghams of the Hackness Cross.
1892Athenæum 13 Feb. 211/2 Mr. Donnelly keeps his cryptogrammatical tendencies in check. 1890Ibid. 8 Mar. 316/3 America will some day produce..a cryptogrammatist ready to prove that ‘The Ring and the Book’ was written by Lord Tennyson.
1901Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 2/3 By a bewildering..system of..word-counting he constructed a cryptogrammic theory. 1906Daily Chron. 18 June 3/3 Prophets, cranks, cryptogrammists. 1929W. J. Locke Ancestor Jorico vii. 90 In peace times the Admiralty had no use for an expert cryptogrammist. |