crypto-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Forms: before a vowel usually crypt-.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek κρυπτο-.

Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek κρυπτο-, combining form (rare; apparently only in κρύπτορχος with undescended testicles, recorded in an inscription) < ancient Greek κρυπτός hidden, concealed, secret (see crypt n.); compare -o- connective. Compare post-classical Latin crypto- (in e.g. cryptographia cryptography n., crypto-Calvinista crypto-Calvinist n.).With Hellenistic Greek κρυπτο- compare the more common combining forms ancient Greek κρυψι- (in e.g. κρυψίνους hiding one's thoughts, Hellenistic Greek κρυψόρχης with undescended testicles), Byzantine Greek κρυϕο- (in e.g. κρυϕογενής secretly born). Attested earliest in English in the late 16th cent. in the isolated early borrowing cryptoporticus n., which itself shows an isolated classical Latin formation with ancient Greek κρυπτός as first element. Found subsequently in the 17th cent. in cryptographer n., cryptography n., and related words, probably ultimately after models in post-classical Latin, and likewise in cryptology n. Entirely new formations within English date from the first half of the 19th cent., e.g. crypto-dynamic adj., cryptocrystalline adj.

1. Forming chiefly scientific nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘concealed, not visible, not apparent’. See also cryptobiosis n., cryptobranchiate adj., cryptocrystalline adj., cryptophyte n., etc.

† cryptocarp n. Obsolete rare (a) Zoology a hydrozoan of the former family Cryptocarpae; (b) Botany the sexual fruit of certain seaweeds of the division Rhodophyta, which forms a hollow ball enclosing the carpospores; = cystocarp n.

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1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 603 With reference to the digestive cavity of the Cryptocarp and Phanerocarp families Mr. Huxley remarks, ‘Whatever its appearance, it will always be found to be composed of two membranes.’

1889 Cent. Dict. 1380/1 Cryptocarp, in algology, same as cystocarp.

† cryptocarpic adj. Botany Obsolete rare = cystocarpic adj. at cystocarp n. Derivatives.

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1883 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 21 217 It must, however, have been through inadvertence that the cryptocarpic fruits of Callithamnion thuyoides, C. polyspermum..and Grateloupia ulicina are omitted.

† cryptocarpous adj. Obsolete rare (a) Zoology (of hydrozoans) not having visible reproductive organs; spec. belonging to the former family Cryptocarpae; (b) Botany = cryptocarpic adj.

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1851 Proc. Zool. Soc. 19 275 From an examination of its anatomy he first showed the serious error committed by Eschscholtz in considering the Æquoridæ as cryptocarpous.

1891 Encycl. Brit. XII. 560/2 The cryptocarpous medusae of Eschscholtz.

1893 N.E.D. at Crypto- Cryptocarpous, having the fruit or fruiting organs concealed.

cryptocephalous adj.

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/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈsɛf(ə)ləs/

/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈsɛfl̩əs/

/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈkɛf(ə)ləs/

/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈkɛfl̩əs/

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Zoology rare (of a polychaete worm or insect) having the head concealed.

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1847 H. McMurtrie Lexicon Scientiarum 70 Cryptocephalous, Ent[omol.], a term applied to Insects in which the head is concealed by the pro-thorax or corslet.

1905 A. Willey Rep. Polychæta in W.A. Herdman Rep. Pearl Oyster Fisheries Gulf Manaar IV. 250 As indicated by Grube in 1869, this species presents a cryptocephalous condition.

1914 Jrnl. Marine Biol. Assoc. 10 309 The cephalic gills of Cryptocephalous Polychætes have current-producing lateral cilia and frontal food-collecting cilia.

cryptocerous adj.

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/krɪpˈtɒs(ə)rəs/

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/krɪpˈtɑsərəs/

Entomology rare (of a heteropteran water bug) having hidden antennae; spec. belonging to the series Cryptocerata (or Hydrocorisae).

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1847 H. McMurtrie Lexicon Scientiarum 71 Cryptocerous, Ent[omol.], applied to Insects in which the antennæ lie hid in a groove.

1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 11 Aquatilia, cryptocerous Hemiptera of truly aquatic habit.

1955 Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 37 280 It has been the aim of this writer..to determine the phylogenetic relationships between the Gelastocoridae and other cryptocerous Hemiptera.

cryptoclastic adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəˈklastɪk/

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/ˌkrɪptəˈklæstɪk/

[after German kryptoklastisch ( A. Bosizio Geol. u. der Sündfluth (1877) xiii. 165)] Geology rare (of rocks) consisting of microscopic fragments of older rocks.

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1879 Reg. Univ. Calif. 1879–80 39 The study of the crypto-crystalline and crypto-clastic rocks, in thin sections, under the microscope.

1957 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 65 88/2 The matrix of most of the breccias consists of pulverized, cryptoclastic dolomite and limestone.

† cryptoclite n. Grammar Obsolete rare an irregular noun which appears regular due to phonetic changes over time.

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1875 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. 52 Irregular nouns..disguised by phonetic changes (Cryptoclites).

cryptolalic adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəˈleɪlɪk/

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/ˌkrɪptəˈlælɪk/

/ˌkrɪptəˈleɪlɪk/

of the nature of coded speech.

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1889 Sat. Rev. 26 Oct. 445/1 On some cryptographic or cryptolalic system.

1953 C. Harness in Authentic Sci. Fiction 31 103 ‘What is “rose” a code word for?’ Death? mused Anna. Was the rose a cryptolalic synonym for the grave?

2002 Y. Matras Romani x. 239 In dialects that were traditionally spoken by isolated communities of peripatetic Rom.., euphemistic and cryptolalic formations are especially widespread.

cryptomorphite n.

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/ˌkrɪptəˈmɔːfʌɪt/

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Mineralogy (now disused) a cryptocrystalline mineral consisting of a hydrated sodium and calcium borate, now identified with ginorite.

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1860 J. W. Dawson Suppl. Chapter Acadian Geol. 10 Professor How has..discovered a second boracic-acid mineral in the gypsum. It consists of borate and sulphate of lime, soda, and magnesia, and Professor H. proposes to name it Cryptomorphite.

1911 F. W. Clarke Data Geochem. (ed. 2) vii. 238 In the gypsum beds of Nova Scotia ulexite, howlite, and cryptomorphite are found.

1952 Mineral. Mag. 29 955 In our opinion, the X-ray powder pattern, the crystal shape, and the optical properties constitute proof of the identity of cryptomorphite and ginorite.

† cryptoneurous adj. Zoology Obsolete rare (of an invertebrate) having no discernible nervous system.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cryptoneurous, applied by Rudolphi to a series of animals the nervous system of which is mingled and confounded with the mass which constitutes them, as the zoophytes.

cryptopentamerous adj.

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/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)pɛnˈtam(ə)rəs/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˌpɛnˈtæmərəs/

[after post-classical Latin cryptopentamera, plural (1832 in the passage translated in quot. 1836, alongside German fünfgliedrige)] Entomology (now rare) (of an insect) having tarsi that seem to have four joints but actually have five, with one of the joints minute or concealed; (of a tarsus) having this form.Such tarsi are characteristic of certain groups of beetles.

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1836 W. E. Shuckard tr. H. Burmeister Man. Entomol. i. iii. 103 Crypto-pentamerous (crypto-pentamera), are those which truly possess five joints, but in which the penultimate is so small that it can be perceived only upon the most rigid inspection, and by means of a lens (Cerambyx).

1895 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 3 239 We might have in this insect a cryptopentamerous group of the Chalcididæ.

1964 Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Biologica 324 Crypto-pentamerous tarsi are a current phenomenon in Cleridae.

cryptostoma n.

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/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈstəʊmə/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈstoʊmə/

/ˌkrɪptəˈstoʊmə/

Botany (now rare) a small circular depression containing finely septate hairs found on the surface of some seaweeds, esp. those of the order Fucales.

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1847 J. Lindley Elements Bot. (ed. 5) p. xxix/1 (Gloss.) Cryptostomata, little circular nuclei found on the surface of some Algals.

1916 Bot. Gaz. 61 238 In each case a saucer-like depression initiated the central portion of a cryptostoma.

1995 C. van den Hoek et al. Algae xii. 207/1 The surfaces of the strap like parts of the thallus are pock-marked with cavities (cryptostomata), which contain tufts of phaeophycean hairs.

† cryptozygosity n. Physical Anthropology Obsolete rare the condition of being cryptozygous.

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1886 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 15 155 The Fuegians are on an average phenozygous, the fronto-zygomatic index being under 90, which, in a previous communication, I have shown to be the limits between phenozygosity and cryptozygosity.

cryptozygous adj.

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/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈzʌɪɡəs/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈzaɪɡəs/

/ˌkrɪptəˈzaɪɡəs/

Physical Anthropology (now rare) designating a skull whose zygomatic arches cannot be seen when it is viewed from above; (also) designating the zygomatic arches of this type of skull; opposed to phenozygous.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [adjective] > types

short-headed1802

beloid1833

microcephalous1840

platycephalous1846

long-skulled1847

round-headed1847

brachycephalic1849

dolichocephalic1849

acrocephalic1855

megacephalous1857

microcephalic1857

cymbocephalic1861

macrocephalous1861

platycephalic1861

macrocephalic1863

phaenozygous1863

dolichocephalous1864

homoeocephalic1866

mecistocephalic1866

mecocephalic1866

mesocephalic1866

orthocephalic1866

stenocephalic1866

cryptozygous1867

megalocephalic1868

aphanozygous1871

brachycephalous1872

orthocephalous1872

mesaticephalic1873

plagiocephalic1873

plagiocephalic1874

mesaticephalous1876

mesorrhine1877

platyrrhine1877

cylindro-cephalic1878

eurycephalic1878

hypsistenocephalic1878

megaseme1878

mesoseme1878

microseme1878

oxycephalic1878

oxyklinocephalic1878

platybasic1878

pyrgocephalic1878

tapinocephalic1878

megacephalic1879

hypsiconchous1885

mesoconchous1885

chamaeprosopic1886

leptocephalic1886

mesorrhinian1887

long-headed1888

tectocephalic1888

mecistocephalous1890

megalocephalous1890

plagiocephalous1890

mesocephal1891

stegoid1894

brachycranial1902

chamaecephalic1902

chamaeconchic1902

chamaecranial1902

macrocranial1902

platycranial1902

stenocranial1904

mesoconch1905

mesoconchic1909

hypsiconch1920

Lapponoid1939

hypsiconchic1960

1867 T. H. Huxley in Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 1 64 Its [sc. a skull's] bulging sides completely hide the zygomatic arches. It is, therefore, in Mr. Busk's nomenclature, cryptozygous.

1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. ii. iii. 288 When [the facial angle] is negative, the [zygomatic] arches are cryptozygous [Fr. cryptozyges] or concealed.

1943 Lancet 13 Nov. 606/1 It would be well to omit Huxley's obsolete classification of skulls into cryptozygous and phaenozygous, since under which of these two any skull falls depends entirely on the distance from which it is viewed.

1987 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 42 157/2 (table) Zygomatic arch. Cryptozygous.

2. Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the senses ‘secret’, ‘secretly’, esp. secretly a member of a religious, political, or other group. See also crypto-Calvinist n.

crypto-Catholic n. and adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈkaθ(ə)lɪk/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈkæθ(ə)lɪk/

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1839 Brit. Critic 26 343 In the ranks of popular Protestantism,..there have been many Crypto-Catholics unknown to themselves.

1854 J. Kingsmill Chapters on Prisons & Prisoners (ed. 3) v. 304 His hands crossed on his breast in the crypto-catholic style.

1960 A. L. Rowse Diary 26 Oct. (2003) 331 Howard was very secretive—a crypto-Catholic, crypto-homo, crypto-everything.

1999 P. S. Gorski in G. Steinmetz State/Culture v. 171 The Calvinist movement had a broad social base and crystallized around opposition to a Catholic (or crypto-Catholic) monarch.

crypto-Catholicism n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊkəˈθɒlᵻsɪz(ə)m/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊkəˈθɑləˌsɪz(ə)m/

[probably after French crypto-catholicisme (1798 or earlier)]

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1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 27 515 The charge of Crypto-Catholicism.

1905 R. N. Bain Scandinavia vi. 132 He became the centre of the opposition to the new liturgy, and indeed to everything distantly resembling crypto-Catholicism.

2001 ELH 68 944 The demonization of high-church Anglicanism as a kind of crypto-Catholicism.

crypto-Christian n. and adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈkrɪstʃ(ə)n/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈkrɪstʃən/

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1857 W. Spottiswoode in tr. M. Steinschneider Jewish Lit. iii. xxv. 217 A compendium of Jacob ben Asher's four Turim, for the use of the Crypto-Christians in Flanders. [No corresponding sentence in the German original.]

1877 M. MacColl Eastern Question iii. 205 In most cases the crypto-Christian parents had their children baptized, and brought them up secretly in the Christian faith.

1963 Mariner's Mirror 49 2 The crypto-Christian graffiti in the catacombs.

1990 M. Martin Keys of this Blood v. xxi. 416 The second possibility is that Mikhail Gorbachev is the classic crypto-Christian.

crypto-communist n. and adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈkɒmjᵿnɪst/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈkɑmjənəst/

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > adherent of > covert

crypto-communist1924

1924 Manch. Guardian 5 Sept. 8/5 Members..may evade the resolution by resigning from the Communist party and becoming crypto-Communists within the Labour party.

1941 E. Lyons Red Decade xxviii. 343 That was the key to the bitterness against them not only in the frankly communist press but in the crypto-communist circles.

1961 Times 1 Dec. 15/1 A crypto-communist reporter.

1991 World Press Rev. Jan. 29/1 Reagan's circus of illusion branded every form of opposition by the notorious East Coast intellectuals as liberal (meaning ‘crypto-communist’).

1996 George Feb. 79/1 During the New Deal, crypto-communists and Klansmen were both part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's coalition.

crypto-deist n. and adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈdeɪɪst/

/ˌkrɪptəʊˈdiːɪst/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈdiᵻst/

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1885 H. N. Oxenham Short Stud. xxvi. 244 He [sc. Thomas Paine] was already a crypto-deist.

1997 A. C. Clarke 3001 (1998) xx. 145 You still haven't told me how Ted, that old crypto-Deist, thinks you can help him in his search for God.

2000 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 10 188 It upheld rational and sociable concepts of the Christian life which might move in directions Arian, Socinian or crypto-deist.

crypto-fascist adj. and n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈfaʃɪst/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈfæʃəst/

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > fascism > [noun] > adherent of > covert

crypto-fascist1927

1927 Manch. Guardian 31 Oct. 16/3 The crypto-Fascists..seek to keep control of their [sc. democratic institutions's] most delicate workings in order to pervert them.

1928 Manch. Guardian 18 Jan. 13/2 A very widespread though undefined crypto-Fascist movement against democracy.

1956 D. J. Enright Bread rather than Blossoms 26 A crypto-fascist looks for open war.

1990 Arizona Daily Star 14 Mar. c1/1 Our heroes are quickly suspended from the force by corrupt higher-ups controlled by Washington's crypto-fascists.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xvi. 483 This one calls the phenomenon populist-democratic. That one fears it may be crypto-fascist.

crypto-Fenian n. and adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈfiːnɪən/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈfiniən/

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1890 Times 3 Dec. 9/3 The League in Ireland is largely officered by the advanced Nationalists or Crypto-Fenians, who are delighted at the breach with the Gladstonians.

1982 D. G. Boyce Nationalism in Ireland vii. 208 He possessed an impeccable parliamentary record of anti-English, and, on occasion, crypto-Fenian speeches.

1993 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 7 May So behind that good Cantonese couturier, Jenny Kee, there is really a crypto-Fenian at work.

crypto-heresy n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈhɛrᵻsi/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈhɛrəsi/

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1887 E. H. Plumptre in tr. Dante Commedia II. 382 The symbolic cypher of a crypto-heresy.

2002 M. P. Winship Making Heretics iv. 65 Shepard had put his authority on the line with his congregation in his grave accusation of crypto-heresy, and he could not back down without losing face.

crypto-heretic n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈhɛrᵻtɪk/

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1877 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Oct. 694 This or that man may be implicitly heterodox according to that standard, and there may be a crypto-heretic here or there.

1995 L. Jacobs Jewish Relig. 142/2 Crypto-heretics would obviously avoid reciting a benediction which calls for their own downfall.

crypto-Jesuit n. and adj.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈdʒɛzjʊɪt/

/ˌkrɪptəʊˈdʒɛʒʊɪt/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈdʒɛzəwət/

/ˌkrɪptoʊˈdʒɛʒəwət/

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1845 Christian's Monthly Mag. Feb. 183 It is much to be feared that Crypto-Jesuits have written them in order then to point at them and say, ‘See how these Protestants bite and devour each other.’

1979 P. E. Gottfried Conservative Millenarians iii. 53 Bavarian rationalists..increasingly identified the Rosicrucians with religious obscurantism and crypto-Jesuit conspiracies.

1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 266 Our excellent Sprout Penn, the latest of his crypto-Jesuit ruling family.

2007 M. Moran Catholic Sensationalism & Victorian Lit. i. 52 Although these external signs might suggest to the suspicious that Mr Harrison is a Crypto-Jesuit, they do not disclose the nature of his audacious deception.

crypto-Jew n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈdʒuː/

/ˈkrɪptəʊdʒuː/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈdʒu/

/ˈkrɪptoʊˌdʒu/

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1881 St. Louis Theol. Monthly June 29 We at once may arrive at the conclusion that..we ourselves are reformed Jews (‘Crypto-Jews!’) inasmuch as we believe that there is but One God.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 231/2 Portuguese crypto-Jews, that is, descendants of Jews whom the Inquisition had compelled to embrace Christianity but who remained Jews at heart.

2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 8/2 A crypto-Jew, he smuggled arms to Sam Houston, then fighting for the independence of Texas from Mexican rule.

crypto-lunatic n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈluːnətɪk/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈlunəˌtɪk/

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1879 Southern Med. Rec. 9 191 A world in which one man in a thousand is probably a crypto-lunatic, anxious, above all things, for a supreme sensation.

1889 Spectator 16 Nov. M. Thiers..allowed many thousand persons, half of them crypto-lunatics, to be executed.

1931 J. Langdon-Davies Sci. & Common Sense xi. 268 One effect of Jeans and Eddington is likely to be an increased interest in entropy on the part of lunatics and crypto-lunatics.

crypto-proselyte n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈprɒsᵻlʌɪt/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊˈprɑsəˌlaɪt/

rare

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1893 N.E.D. at Crypto crypto-proselyte.

2007 T. L. Donaldson Judaism & Gentiles 545 It is easier to imagine an old man being examined to determine if he had been born Jewish than to determine whether he had become a crypto-proselyte.

crypto-royalist adj. and n.

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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. ii. 175 A traitorous Crypto-Royalist class.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. x. 550 Royalist Malignants, in 1647, 1648, and Crypto-Royalists.

1996 J. E. Smith John Marshall (1998) iv. 113 A man believed to be tainted with crypto-royalist sentiment.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Apr. 52/2 At Marseilles, the bust of Mirabeau, exposed as a crypto-royalist, was veiled.

crypto-Semite n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈsɛmʌɪt/

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1920 Punch 26 May 415/1 Giving dancing lessons to the daughters of profiteers, Crypto-Semites and other unpropitious persons.

1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering v. v. 280 This ‘young American poet’ was undoubtedly a crypto-semite.

2005 19th-cent. Lit. 60 104 It is hard to reconstruct..the world in which a liminal figure like Disraeli, crypto-Semite and novelist, might also be within the inner circles of political power.

crypto-Socinian n.

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/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)sə(ʊ)ˈsɪnɪən/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊsoʊˈsiniən/

/ˌkrɪptəsoʊˈsiniən/

[compare post-classical Latin crypto-Socinismus (1729 or earlier)]

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1850 R. Wallace Antitrinitarian Biogr. III. 136 Andrew was Pastor of Drechtow..and a Crypto-Socinian.

1905 R. N. Bain in A. W. Ward et al. Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1918) III. iii. 80 Crypto-Socinians were..very numerous in Poland.

1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 396 At some point, Newton, whose friend Locke was himself a crypto-Socinian of sorts, would have become aware of such underground networks.

crypto-splenetic adj.

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/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)splᵻˈnɛtɪk/

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/ˌkrɪptoʊspləˈnɛdɪk/

rare

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1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. iv. 51 A weak croaky official gentleman..of a crypto-splenetic turn.

crypto-insolence n.

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/ˌkrɪptəʊˈɪnsələns/

/ˌkrɪptəʊˈɪnsəln̩s/

/ˌkrɪptəʊˈɪnsl̩(ə)ns/

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rare veiled insolence.

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1881 Spectator 15 Jan. 77 The crypto-insolence which so often underlies journalistic argument about Irishmen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	crypto-
释义	crypto-comb. form Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Forms: before a vowel usually crypt-. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek κρυπτο-. Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek κρυπτο-, combining form (rare; apparently only in κρύπτορχος with undescended testicles, recorded in an inscription) < ancient Greek κρυπτός hidden, concealed, secret (see crypt n.); compare -o- connective. Compare post-classical Latin crypto- (in e.g. cryptographia cryptography n., crypto-Calvinista crypto-Calvinist n.).With Hellenistic Greek κρυπτο- compare the more common combining forms ancient Greek κρυψι- (in e.g. κρυψίνους hiding one's thoughts, Hellenistic Greek κρυψόρχης with undescended testicles), Byzantine Greek κρυϕο- (in e.g. κρυϕογενής secretly born). Attested earliest in English in the late 16th cent. in the isolated early borrowing cryptoporticus n., which itself shows an isolated classical Latin formation with ancient Greek κρυπτός as first element. Found subsequently in the 17th cent. in cryptographer n., cryptography n., and related words, probably ultimately after models in post-classical Latin, and likewise in cryptology n. Entirely new formations within English date from the first half of the 19th cent., e.g. crypto-dynamic adj., cryptocrystalline adj. 1. Forming chiefly scientific nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘concealed, not visible, not apparent’. See also cryptobiosis n., cryptobranchiate adj., cryptocrystalline adj., cryptophyte n., etc. † cryptocarp n. Obsolete rare (a) Zoology a hydrozoan of the former family Cryptocarpae; (b) Botany the sexual fruit of certain seaweeds of the division Rhodophyta, which forms a hollow ball enclosing the carpospores; = cystocarp n. ΚΠ 1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 603 With reference to the digestive cavity of the Cryptocarp and Phanerocarp families Mr. Huxley remarks, ‘Whatever its appearance, it will always be found to be composed of two membranes.’ 1889 Cent. Dict. 1380/1 Cryptocarp, in algology, same as cystocarp. † cryptocarpic adj. Botany Obsolete rare = cystocarpic adj. at cystocarp n. Derivatives. ΚΠ 1883 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 21 217 It must, however, have been through inadvertence that the cryptocarpic fruits of Callithamnion thuyoides, C. polyspermum..and Grateloupia ulicina are omitted. † cryptocarpous adj. Obsolete rare (a) Zoology (of hydrozoans) not having visible reproductive organs; spec. belonging to the former family Cryptocarpae; (b) Botany = cryptocarpic adj. ΚΠ 1851 Proc. Zool. Soc. 19 275 From an examination of its anatomy he first showed the serious error committed by Eschscholtz in considering the Æquoridæ as cryptocarpous. 1891 Encycl. Brit. XII. 560/2 The cryptocarpous medusae of Eschscholtz. 1893 N.E.D. at Crypto- Cryptocarpous, having the fruit or fruiting organs concealed. cryptocephalous adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈsɛf(ə)ləs/ , /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈsɛfl̩əs/ , /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈkɛf(ə)ləs/ , /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈkɛfl̩əs/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈsɛfələs/ Zoology rare (of a polychaete worm or insect) having the head concealed. ΚΠ 1847 H. McMurtrie Lexicon Scientiarum 70 Cryptocephalous, Ent[omol.], a term applied to Insects in which the head is concealed by the pro-thorax or corslet. 1905 A. Willey Rep. Polychæta in W.A. Herdman Rep. Pearl Oyster Fisheries Gulf Manaar IV. 250 As indicated by Grube in 1869, this species presents a cryptocephalous condition. 1914 Jrnl. Marine Biol. Assoc. 10 309 The cephalic gills of Cryptocephalous Polychætes have current-producing lateral cilia and frontal food-collecting cilia. cryptocerous adj. Brit. /krɪpˈtɒs(ə)rəs/ , U.S. /krɪpˈtɑsərəs/ Entomology rare (of a heteropteran water bug) having hidden antennae; spec. belonging to the series Cryptocerata (or Hydrocorisae). ΚΠ 1847 H. McMurtrie Lexicon Scientiarum 71 Cryptocerous, Ent[omol.], applied to Insects in which the antennæ lie hid in a groove. 1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 11 Aquatilia, cryptocerous Hemiptera of truly aquatic habit. 1955 Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 37 280 It has been the aim of this writer..to determine the phylogenetic relationships between the Gelastocoridae and other cryptocerous Hemiptera. cryptoclastic adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəˈklastɪk/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptəˈklæstɪk/ [after German kryptoklastisch ( A. Bosizio Geol. u. der Sündfluth (1877) xiii. 165)] Geology rare (of rocks) consisting of microscopic fragments of older rocks. ΚΠ 1879 Reg. Univ. Calif. 1879–80 39 The study of the crypto-crystalline and crypto-clastic rocks, in thin sections, under the microscope. 1957 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 65 88/2 The matrix of most of the breccias consists of pulverized, cryptoclastic dolomite and limestone. † cryptoclite n. Grammar Obsolete rare an irregular noun which appears regular due to phonetic changes over time. ΚΠ 1875 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. 52 Irregular nouns..disguised by phonetic changes (Cryptoclites). cryptolalic adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəˈleɪlɪk/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptəˈlælɪk/ , /ˌkrɪptəˈleɪlɪk/ of the nature of coded speech. ΚΠ 1889 Sat. Rev. 26 Oct. 445/1 On some cryptographic or cryptolalic system. 1953 C. Harness in Authentic Sci. Fiction 31 103 ‘What is “rose” a code word for?’ Death? mused Anna. Was the rose a cryptolalic synonym for the grave? 2002 Y. Matras Romani x. 239 In dialects that were traditionally spoken by isolated communities of peripatetic Rom.., euphemistic and cryptolalic formations are especially widespread. cryptomorphite n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəˈmɔːfʌɪt/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptəˈmɔrˌfaɪt/ Mineralogy (now disused) a cryptocrystalline mineral consisting of a hydrated sodium and calcium borate, now identified with ginorite. ΚΠ 1860 J. W. Dawson Suppl. Chapter Acadian Geol. 10 Professor How has..discovered a second boracic-acid mineral in the gypsum. It consists of borate and sulphate of lime, soda, and magnesia, and Professor H. proposes to name it Cryptomorphite. 1911 F. W. Clarke Data Geochem. (ed. 2) vii. 238 In the gypsum beds of Nova Scotia ulexite, howlite, and cryptomorphite are found. 1952 Mineral. Mag. 29 955 In our opinion, the X-ray powder pattern, the crystal shape, and the optical properties constitute proof of the identity of cryptomorphite and ginorite. † cryptoneurous adj. Zoology Obsolete rare (of an invertebrate) having no discernible nervous system.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cryptoneurous, applied by Rudolphi to a series of animals the nervous system of which is mingled and confounded with the mass which constitutes them, as the zoophytes. cryptopentamerous adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)pɛnˈtam(ə)rəs/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˌpɛnˈtæmərəs/ [after post-classical Latin cryptopentamera, plural (1832 in the passage translated in quot. 1836, alongside German fünfgliedrige)] Entomology (now rare) (of an insect) having tarsi that seem to have four joints but actually have five, with one of the joints minute or concealed; (of a tarsus) having this form.Such tarsi are characteristic of certain groups of beetles. ΚΠ 1836 W. E. Shuckard tr. H. Burmeister Man. Entomol. i. iii. 103 Crypto-pentamerous (crypto-pentamera), are those which truly possess five joints, but in which the penultimate is so small that it can be perceived only upon the most rigid inspection, and by means of a lens (Cerambyx). 1895 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 3 239 We might have in this insect a cryptopentamerous group of the Chalcididæ. 1964 Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Biologica 324 Crypto-pentamerous tarsi are a current phenomenon in Cleridae. cryptostoma n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈstəʊmə/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈstoʊmə/ , /ˌkrɪptəˈstoʊmə/ Botany (now rare) a small circular depression containing finely septate hairs found on the surface of some seaweeds, esp. those of the order Fucales. ΚΠ 1847 J. Lindley Elements Bot. (ed. 5) p. xxix/1 (Gloss.) Cryptostomata, little circular nuclei found on the surface of some Algals. 1916 Bot. Gaz. 61 238 In each case a saucer-like depression initiated the central portion of a cryptostoma. 1995 C. van den Hoek et al. Algae xii. 207/1 The surfaces of the strap like parts of the thallus are pock-marked with cavities (cryptostomata), which contain tufts of phaeophycean hairs. † cryptozygosity n. Physical Anthropology Obsolete rare the condition of being cryptozygous. ΚΠ 1886 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 15 155 The Fuegians are on an average phenozygous, the fronto-zygomatic index being under 90, which, in a previous communication, I have shown to be the limits between phenozygosity and cryptozygosity. cryptozygous adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)ˈzʌɪɡəs/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈzaɪɡəs/ , /ˌkrɪptəˈzaɪɡəs/ Physical Anthropology (now rare) designating a skull whose zygomatic arches cannot be seen when it is viewed from above; (also) designating the zygomatic arches of this type of skull; opposed to phenozygous. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [adjective] > types short-headed1802 beloid1833 microcephalous1840 platycephalous1846 long-skulled1847 round-headed1847 brachycephalic1849 dolichocephalic1849 acrocephalic1855 megacephalous1857 microcephalic1857 cymbocephalic1861 macrocephalous1861 platycephalic1861 macrocephalic1863 phaenozygous1863 dolichocephalous1864 homoeocephalic1866 mecistocephalic1866 mecocephalic1866 mesocephalic1866 orthocephalic1866 stenocephalic1866 cryptozygous1867 megalocephalic1868 aphanozygous1871 brachycephalous1872 orthocephalous1872 mesaticephalic1873 plagiocephalic1873 plagiocephalic1874 mesaticephalous1876 mesorrhine1877 platyrrhine1877 cylindro-cephalic1878 eurycephalic1878 hypsistenocephalic1878 megaseme1878 mesoseme1878 microseme1878 oxycephalic1878 oxyklinocephalic1878 platybasic1878 pyrgocephalic1878 tapinocephalic1878 megacephalic1879 hypsiconchous1885 mesoconchous1885 chamaeprosopic1886 leptocephalic1886 mesorrhinian1887 long-headed1888 tectocephalic1888 mecistocephalous1890 megalocephalous1890 plagiocephalous1890 mesocephal1891 stegoid1894 brachycranial1902 chamaecephalic1902 chamaeconchic1902 chamaecranial1902 macrocranial1902 platycranial1902 stenocranial1904 mesoconch1905 mesoconchic1909 hypsiconch1920 Lapponoid1939 hypsiconchic1960 1867 T. H. Huxley in Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 1 64 Its [sc. a skull's] bulging sides completely hide the zygomatic arches. It is, therefore, in Mr. Busk's nomenclature, cryptozygous. 1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. ii. iii. 288 When [the facial angle] is negative, the [zygomatic] arches are cryptozygous [Fr. cryptozyges] or concealed. 1943 Lancet 13 Nov. 606/1 It would be well to omit Huxley's obsolete classification of skulls into cryptozygous and phaenozygous, since under which of these two any skull falls depends entirely on the distance from which it is viewed. 1987 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 42 157/2 (table) Zygomatic arch. Cryptozygous. 2. Prefixed to nouns and adjectives with the senses ‘secret’, ‘secretly’, esp. secretly a member of a religious, political, or other group. See also crypto-Calvinist n. a. crypto-Catholic n. and adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈkaθ(ə)lɪk/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈkæθ(ə)lɪk/ ΚΠ 1839 Brit. Critic 26 343 In the ranks of popular Protestantism,..there have been many Crypto-Catholics unknown to themselves. 1854 J. Kingsmill Chapters on Prisons & Prisoners (ed. 3) v. 304 His hands crossed on his breast in the crypto-catholic style. 1960 A. L. Rowse Diary 26 Oct. (2003) 331 Howard was very secretive—a crypto-Catholic, crypto-homo, crypto-everything. 1999 P. S. Gorski in G. Steinmetz State/Culture v. 171 The Calvinist movement had a broad social base and crystallized around opposition to a Catholic (or crypto-Catholic) monarch. crypto-Catholicism n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊkəˈθɒlᵻsɪz(ə)m/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊkəˈθɑləˌsɪz(ə)m/ [probably after French crypto-catholicisme (1798 or earlier)] ΚΠ 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 27 515 The charge of Crypto-Catholicism. 1905 R. N. Bain Scandinavia vi. 132 He became the centre of the opposition to the new liturgy, and indeed to everything distantly resembling crypto-Catholicism. 2001 ELH 68 944 The demonization of high-church Anglicanism as a kind of crypto-Catholicism. crypto-Christian n. and adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈkrɪstʃ(ə)n/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈkrɪstʃən/ ΚΠ 1857 W. Spottiswoode in tr. M. Steinschneider Jewish Lit. iii. xxv. 217 A compendium of Jacob ben Asher's four Turim, for the use of the Crypto-Christians in Flanders. [No corresponding sentence in the German original.] 1877 M. MacColl Eastern Question iii. 205 In most cases the crypto-Christian parents had their children baptized, and brought them up secretly in the Christian faith. 1963 Mariner's Mirror 49 2 The crypto-Christian graffiti in the catacombs. 1990 M. Martin Keys of this Blood v. xxi. 416 The second possibility is that Mikhail Gorbachev is the classic crypto-Christian. crypto-communist n. and adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈkɒmjᵿnɪst/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈkɑmjənəst/ ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > adherent of > covert crypto-communist1924 1924 Manch. Guardian 5 Sept. 8/5 Members..may evade the resolution by resigning from the Communist party and becoming crypto-Communists within the Labour party. 1941 E. Lyons Red Decade xxviii. 343 That was the key to the bitterness against them not only in the frankly communist press but in the crypto-communist circles. 1961 Times 1 Dec. 15/1 A crypto-communist reporter. 1991 World Press Rev. Jan. 29/1 Reagan's circus of illusion branded every form of opposition by the notorious East Coast intellectuals as liberal (meaning ‘crypto-communist’). 1996 George Feb. 79/1 During the New Deal, crypto-communists and Klansmen were both part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's coalition. crypto-deist n. and adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈdeɪɪst/ , /ˌkrɪptəʊˈdiːɪst/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈdiᵻst/ ΚΠ 1885 H. N. Oxenham Short Stud. xxvi. 244 He [sc. Thomas Paine] was already a crypto-deist. 1997 A. C. Clarke 3001 (1998) xx. 145 You still haven't told me how Ted, that old crypto-Deist, thinks you can help him in his search for God. 2000 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 10 188 It upheld rational and sociable concepts of the Christian life which might move in directions Arian, Socinian or crypto-deist. crypto-fascist adj. and n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈfaʃɪst/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈfæʃəst/ ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > fascism > [noun] > adherent of > covert crypto-fascist1927 1927 Manch. Guardian 31 Oct. 16/3 The crypto-Fascists..seek to keep control of their [sc. democratic institutions's] most delicate workings in order to pervert them. 1928 Manch. Guardian 18 Jan. 13/2 A very widespread though undefined crypto-Fascist movement against democracy. 1956 D. J. Enright Bread rather than Blossoms 26 A crypto-fascist looks for open war. 1990 Arizona Daily Star 14 Mar. c1/1 Our heroes are quickly suspended from the force by corrupt higher-ups controlled by Washington's crypto-fascists. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xvi. 483 This one calls the phenomenon populist-democratic. That one fears it may be crypto-fascist. crypto-Fenian n. and adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈfiːnɪən/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈfiniən/ ΚΠ 1890 Times 3 Dec. 9/3 The League in Ireland is largely officered by the advanced Nationalists or Crypto-Fenians, who are delighted at the breach with the Gladstonians. 1982 D. G. Boyce Nationalism in Ireland vii. 208 He possessed an impeccable parliamentary record of anti-English, and, on occasion, crypto-Fenian speeches. 1993 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 7 May So behind that good Cantonese couturier, Jenny Kee, there is really a crypto-Fenian at work. crypto-heresy n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈhɛrᵻsi/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈhɛrəsi/ ΚΠ 1887 E. H. Plumptre in tr. Dante Commedia II. 382 The symbolic cypher of a crypto-heresy. 2002 M. P. Winship Making Heretics iv. 65 Shepard had put his authority on the line with his congregation in his grave accusation of crypto-heresy, and he could not back down without losing face. crypto-heretic n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈhɛrᵻtɪk/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈhɛrəˌtɪk/ ΚΠ 1877 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Oct. 694 This or that man may be implicitly heterodox according to that standard, and there may be a crypto-heretic here or there. 1995 L. Jacobs Jewish Relig. 142/2 Crypto-heretics would obviously avoid reciting a benediction which calls for their own downfall. crypto-Jesuit n. and adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈdʒɛzjʊɪt/ , /ˌkrɪptəʊˈdʒɛʒʊɪt/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈdʒɛzəwət/ , /ˌkrɪptoʊˈdʒɛʒəwət/ ΚΠ 1845 Christian's Monthly Mag. Feb. 183 It is much to be feared that Crypto-Jesuits have written them in order then to point at them and say, ‘See how these Protestants bite and devour each other.’ 1979 P. E. Gottfried Conservative Millenarians iii. 53 Bavarian rationalists..increasingly identified the Rosicrucians with religious obscurantism and crypto-Jesuit conspiracies. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 266 Our excellent Sprout Penn, the latest of his crypto-Jesuit ruling family. 2007 M. Moran Catholic Sensationalism & Victorian Lit. i. 52 Although these external signs might suggest to the suspicious that Mr Harrison is a Crypto-Jesuit, they do not disclose the nature of his audacious deception. crypto-Jew n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈdʒuː/ , /ˈkrɪptəʊdʒuː/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈdʒu/ , /ˈkrɪptoʊˌdʒu/ ΚΠ 1881 St. Louis Theol. Monthly June 29 We at once may arrive at the conclusion that..we ourselves are reformed Jews (‘Crypto-Jews!’) inasmuch as we believe that there is but One God. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 231/2 Portuguese crypto-Jews, that is, descendants of Jews whom the Inquisition had compelled to embrace Christianity but who remained Jews at heart. 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 8/2 A crypto-Jew, he smuggled arms to Sam Houston, then fighting for the independence of Texas from Mexican rule. crypto-lunatic n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈluːnətɪk/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈlunəˌtɪk/ ΚΠ 1879 Southern Med. Rec. 9 191 A world in which one man in a thousand is probably a crypto-lunatic, anxious, above all things, for a supreme sensation. 1889 Spectator 16 Nov. M. Thiers..allowed many thousand persons, half of them crypto-lunatics, to be executed. 1931 J. Langdon-Davies Sci. & Common Sense xi. 268 One effect of Jeans and Eddington is likely to be an increased interest in entropy on the part of lunatics and crypto-lunatics. crypto-proselyte n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈprɒsᵻlʌɪt/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈprɑsəˌlaɪt/ rare ΚΠ 1893 N.E.D. at Crypto crypto-proselyte. 2007 T. L. Donaldson Judaism & Gentiles 545 It is easier to imagine an old man being examined to determine if he had been born Jewish than to determine whether he had become a crypto-proselyte. crypto-royalist adj. and n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈrɔɪəlɪst/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈrɔɪələst/ ΚΠ 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. ii. 175 A traitorous Crypto-Royalist class. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. x. 550 Royalist Malignants, in 1647, 1648, and Crypto-Royalists. 1996 J. E. Smith John Marshall (1998) iv. 113 A man believed to be tainted with crypto-royalist sentiment. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Apr. 52/2 At Marseilles, the bust of Mirabeau, exposed as a crypto-royalist, was veiled. crypto-Semite n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈsiːmʌɪt/ , /ˌkrɪptəʊˈsɛmʌɪt/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈsɛˌmaɪt/ ΚΠ 1920 Punch 26 May 415/1 Giving dancing lessons to the daughters of profiteers, Crypto-Semites and other unpropitious persons. 1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering v. v. 280 This ‘young American poet’ was undoubtedly a crypto-semite. 2005 19th-cent. Lit. 60 104 It is hard to reconstruct..the world in which a liminal figure like Disraeli, crypto-Semite and novelist, might also be within the inner circles of political power. crypto-Socinian n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)sə(ʊ)ˈsɪnɪən/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊsoʊˈsiniən/ , /ˌkrɪptəsoʊˈsiniən/ [compare post-classical Latin crypto-Socinismus (1729 or earlier)] ΚΠ 1850 R. Wallace Antitrinitarian Biogr. III. 136 Andrew was Pastor of Drechtow..and a Crypto-Socinian. 1905 R. N. Bain in A. W. Ward et al. Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1918) III. iii. 80 Crypto-Socinians were..very numerous in Poland. 1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 396 At some point, Newton, whose friend Locke was himself a crypto-Socinian of sorts, would have become aware of such underground networks. crypto-splenetic adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)splᵻˈnɛtɪk/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊspləˈnɛdɪk/ rare ΚΠ 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. iv. 51 A weak croaky official gentleman..of a crypto-splenetic turn. b. crypto-insolence n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈɪnsələns/ , /ˌkrɪptəʊˈɪnsəln̩s/ , /ˌkrɪptəʊˈɪnsl̩(ə)ns/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈɪnsələns/ rare veiled insolence. ΚΠ 1881 Spectator 15 Jan. 77 The crypto-insolence which so often underlies journalistic argument about Irishmen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1798
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