crypsisn.

Brit.

/ˈkrɪpsɪs/, U.S.

/ˈkrɪpsəs/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Probably also partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin crypsis; Greek κρύψις.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin crypsis (1584 as crupsis , in a work by Peter Ramus, or earlier) < ancient Greek κρύψις hiding, concealment < κρυπτός hidden (see crypt n.) + -σις -sis suffix. In sense 2 probably directly < ancient Greek κρύψις.

1. In the rhetorical theory of Peter Ramus (1515–72): the deliberate embellishment or obscuring of plain meaning or logical argument by use of metaphor, digressions, reordering of ideas, etc. Now historical.rare in 18th and 19th centuries.

ΚΠ

1584 D. Fenner Artes of Logike & Rethorike ii. vii. sig. D This Methode..is for the most part followed of all writers or speakers, yet..they may..wisely alter, chaunge, or hyde the same: and then it is called the hyding or concealing, or crypsis of Method.

1616 R. Gostwick Anatomie Ananias 5 Passing it [sc. the price] ouer by a crypsis of method, as if all law and logicke, all rule and reason, did disavow it.

1660 H. Jeanes Uniformity in Humane Doctrinall Ceremonies 70 In the Syllogisme..there is only a Crypsis.

1842 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought §75. 120 Crypsis in Syllogisms is the act of presenting reasoning in an inartificial shape.

1957 Mod. Philol. 54 159/2 Rhetoric in the Ramist scheme is..merely the process of adding decoration by means of figures of speech, etc., to conceptual statement... If it [sc. the mind] meets with any surface illogicality, such as metaphor, this ‘ornament’ or ‘crypsis’, as it is sometimes called, it is straightway broken down into a logical form.

1977 PMLA 92 958/2 Milton, in his Art of Logic, prescribes the method of crypsis for the formal disposition of poetic materials.

2001 Early Mod. Lit. Stud. (Nexis) 1 Sept. Iago even goes so far as to employ the Ramistic method of crypsis or prudence in his persuasion of Othello in act III.

2. Zoology. Cryptic coloration or behaviour; = crypticity n. 3. Cf. cryptic adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > cryptic or protective coloration

protective coloration1892

homochromy1899

camouflage1917

procrypsis1920

colour scheme1925

scheme of colour1925

crypsis1956

crypticity1956

1956 H. B. D. Kettlewell in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 145 297 In those insects which gain protection from mechanisms other than crypsis.., or even in those cryptic moths which benefit from resembling dead leaves, the melanics are rare, recessive, [and] sub-lethal.

1972 Country Life 2 Mar. 510/4 The rapid spread of ‘industrial Melanism in pigeons’ in Glasgow could in part be due to nocturnal crypsis.

1984 R. M. Pyle Audubon Soc. Handbk. for Butterfly Watchers xiii. 161 As you develop a search image for them their crypsis will cease to fool you.

2006 C. Brown et al. Fish Cognition & Behavior iii. 33 Behaviour is an essential component of crypsis and fishes such as the barbeled leaf fish..hold themselves vertical and sway back and forth in eel grass.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	crypsis
释义	crypsisn. Brit. /ˈkrɪpsɪs/, U.S. /ˈkrɪpsəs/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Probably also partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin crypsis; Greek κρύψις. Etymology: < post-classical Latin crypsis (1584 as crupsis , in a work by Peter Ramus, or earlier) < ancient Greek κρύψις hiding, concealment < κρυπτός hidden (see crypt n.) + -σις -sis suffix. In sense 2 probably directly < ancient Greek κρύψις. 1. In the rhetorical theory of Peter Ramus (1515–72): the deliberate embellishment or obscuring of plain meaning or logical argument by use of metaphor, digressions, reordering of ideas, etc. Now historical.rare in 18th and 19th centuries. ΚΠ 1584 D. Fenner Artes of Logike & Rethorike ii. vii. sig. D This Methode..is for the most part followed of all writers or speakers, yet..they may..wisely alter, chaunge, or hyde the same: and then it is called the hyding or concealing, or crypsis of Method. 1616 R. Gostwick Anatomie Ananias 5 Passing it [sc. the price] ouer by a crypsis of method, as if all law and logicke, all rule and reason, did disavow it. 1660 H. Jeanes Uniformity in Humane Doctrinall Ceremonies 70 In the Syllogisme..there is only a Crypsis. 1842 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought §75. 120 Crypsis in Syllogisms is the act of presenting reasoning in an inartificial shape. 1957 Mod. Philol. 54 159/2 Rhetoric in the Ramist scheme is..merely the process of adding decoration by means of figures of speech, etc., to conceptual statement... If it [sc. the mind] meets with any surface illogicality, such as metaphor, this ‘ornament’ or ‘crypsis’, as it is sometimes called, it is straightway broken down into a logical form. 1977 PMLA 92 958/2 Milton, in his Art of Logic, prescribes the method of crypsis for the formal disposition of poetic materials. 2001 Early Mod. Lit. Stud. (Nexis) 1 Sept. Iago even goes so far as to employ the Ramistic method of crypsis or prudence in his persuasion of Othello in act III. 2. Zoology. Cryptic coloration or behaviour; = crypticity n. 3. Cf. cryptic adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > cryptic or protective coloration protective coloration1892 homochromy1899 camouflage1917 procrypsis1920 colour scheme1925 scheme of colour1925 crypsis1956 crypticity1956 1956 H. B. D. Kettlewell in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 145 297 In those insects which gain protection from mechanisms other than crypsis.., or even in those cryptic moths which benefit from resembling dead leaves, the melanics are rare, recessive, [and] sub-lethal. 1972 Country Life 2 Mar. 510/4 The rapid spread of ‘industrial Melanism in pigeons’ in Glasgow could in part be due to nocturnal crypsis. 1984 R. M. Pyle Audubon Soc. Handbk. for Butterfly Watchers xiii. 161 As you develop a search image for them their crypsis will cease to fool you. 2006 C. Brown et al. Fish Cognition & Behavior iii. 33 Behaviour is an essential component of crypsis and fishes such as the barbeled leaf fish..hold themselves vertical and sway back and forth in eel grass. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1584
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