单词 | crypt |
释义 | cryptn. 1. A cave, cavern, or grotto. Now rare.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave covec950 denOE cavec1220 rochea1300 spelunk13.. cavernc1374 cabin1377 speke1377 antruma1398 minea1398 thurse-house?c1450 crypt?a1475 vault1535 chamber1575 antre1585 underground1594 Peak1600 lustre?1615 open?1644 cunicle1657 subterranean1714 subterrane1759 loch1767 purgatory1797 vug1818 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 307 The cripte [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. den] of Seynte Michael in the mownte Gargan. 1581 W. Fulke Reioynder Bristows Replie 287 The Primitiue Church, which had vessels of gold..in ye crypts or caues of ye earth, in time of persecution. 1879 J. S. Stuart-Glennie Europe & Asia ii. ii. 289 In no mere rills, but in full streams of crystal purity they gush from the crypt of the mountain. 1883 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia (rev. ed.) II. iv. iii. 36 And lone in limestone cave and crypt, Slow heavy tears in silence dripped. 1906 G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens i. 13 Diogenes looked for his honest man inside every crypt and cavern. 2. a. An underground cell, chamber, or vault; esp. one used as a burial place and typically lying beneath a church. Also: such a space used as a chapel or oratory. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > crypt > [noun] undercroft1395 crowd1399 vaultc1400 shrouds1550 crypta1563 crypt1583 grot1658 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel crypt1583 burrow1615 gallery1630 syrinx1678 rock hole1738 cellarwaya1762 tunnel1765 heading1811 subpassage1822 subway1822 subway1831 underpass1904 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > crypt croftOE crowd1399 crypta1563 crypt1583 1583 W. Fulke Briefe Confut. Cauils Papistes 24 in Def. Transl. Script. Bristowe would haue Hierome, by often entering into the cryptes or vaultes of the Churches at Rome, to signifie, that he went on pilgrimage. 1643 W. Slatyer Compl. Christian v. ii. 663 Their smallest Oratories and Churches, or very Chambers, Caverns or Crypte..resembled..the order and fashion of the more stately and succeeding buildings. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. x. xiii. 124/2 The Ancients made use of a great many defences against the violent heats;..their Crypts or subterraneous Porticoes, Vaults, which received light no where but from the top. 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle I. 368 The chancel of this church stood upon a large vault or crypt. 1826 H. Smith Brambletye House III. viii. 219 My ancestors..removed the Rood from its shrine..and set it up in a secret subterranean crypt of the ancient mansion of the Lawrences. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 207 He [sc. J. M. W. Turner] was buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. 1909 S. Hedin Trans-Himalaya I. xxix. 366 The hall was as dark as a crypt. 1955 Times 14 Oct. 4/3 In the background of the long crypts under London Bridge station the dim ranges of casks, bins, and packing cases. 1959 E. A. Fisher Introd. Anglo-Saxon Archit. i. 61 These confessios are different in design and purpose from the later larger crypts underlying the whole of the chancel. 1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. i. 14/5 Monsignor Escriva's body lies in a crypt below the organization's headquarters. b. figurative. Something likened to a crypt, esp. in being dark, deep, or hidden. ΚΠ 1827 (title) The crypt, or, receptacle for things past: an antiquarian, literary, and miscellaneous journal. 1833 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 316 [The Ballot] is..the crypt of political honesty. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 191 Fall'n into the dusty crypt Of darken'd forms and faces. 1926 C. Sandburg Abraham Lincoln II. 278 The roots and the elements of their two lives ran darkly into hidden ways and subtle crypts of life. 1985 N. Auerbach Romantic Imprisonment ii. v. 86 Eliot intended..to liberate Dorothea from her multiple crypts through a better marriage. 2001 A. Dangor Bitter Fruit (2004) ix. 122 She would have to seek some inner serenity, lock all her disturbing recollections into that secret crypt in her memory. 3. Chiefly Anatomy. A depression in the surface of a structure, typically in the form of a shallow pit or tubular or saccular recess; spec. (more fully crypt of Lieberkühn) an intestinal gland (see Lieberkühn n. 2). Cf. crypta n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun] miliary gland1691 mucilaginous gland1691 mucous gland1699 acinus1702 crypta1726 glandule1751 crypt1804 globate gland1813 ganglion1819 submaxillary1824 lacrimal1829 germ gland1840 sweat-gland1845 ductless glands1849 lymph node1892 metasternal1965 1804 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Gen. Syst. Chem. Knowl. IX. 440 Very numerous mucous crypts and granulated pellicles occupy the whole surface of the tongue. 1840 W. Baly tr. J. Müller Elements Physiol. I. 485 Very shallow depressions, such as the simple crypts of the mucous membranes. 1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. 5 The crypts of the canine teeth. 1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. ix. 219 The endodermal epithelium of the allantois is not continued into the villi. These villi fit into depressions in the walls of the uterus known as crypts. 1954 H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. vi. 139 One of the most remarkable phenomena is dilatation of the crypts and extreme flattening of all the cells lining them. 1988 New Phytologist 110 508/1 In oleander, which is hypostomatous like grapevine and red-flowering gum, stomata are located within trichome-lined crypts. 2006 Wellness Options 15 Aug. 15/1 It is interesting that the young enterocytes (gut lining cells) located in the crypts are the ‘secretors’. Compounds crypt house n. ΚΠ 1856 W. Nind tr. F. Schiller in German Lyrist 12 Did ever corpse from out the crypthouse come, That haply of the Retribution spake? 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vi. 182 There are many caves which have been used as dwellings, and several crypt houses. 2006 C. Price Dead Connection 104 He walked around for the next hour, asking his friends the hide-a-body question. ‘I'd try to stick them in one of the crypt houses, I guess,’ Edwin said. Derivatives ˈcrypt-like adj. ΚΠ 1821 T. F. Dibdin Bibliogr. Tour III. Suppl. p. xxvii The chapel itself having a crypt-like appearance. 1939 Times 31 Jan. 8/6 There is a crypt-like structure in which..the women and children of the village used to seek shelter from sea-raiders. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 281 All that time in cryptlike rooms... My anchoritic seclusion from life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1475 |
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