单词 | cryptographal |
释义 | cryptographaladj. rare. Of the nature of a cryptograph; written in code or cipher. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [adjective] > of the nature of cryptography polygraphical1588 steganographical1588 cryptographical1653 cryptographal1663 cryptographic1790 cryptological1868 polygraphic1878 cryptologic1899 1663 J. Beale Let. 29 Sept. in R. Boyle Wks. (1772) VI. 339 Neither have I any zeal for the character, as cryptographal, or universal. 1875 Yale Lit. Mag. Mar. 317 Exactly the opposite of these are the poets of the future. To them, the past is an old cryptographal volume, hard to read and harder to understand. 1904 Ogden (Utah) Standard 19 Nov. 3/6 One can..give precise directions, helping out, if need be, by the letters of a cryptographal alphabet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1663 |
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