单词 | decipherer |
释义 | decipherern. A person who deciphers something (in various senses of the verb); esp. one who decodes something written in cipher. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > interpreter latimerc1275 dragoman13.. meanera1387 interpretator?a1475 truchman1485 spokesman1519 interpreter1531 interpret1584 decipherer1587 trenchman1632 linguistera1649 terjiman1682 renderera1691 dubash1698 reader1763 exegesist1831 hermeneutist1836 exegetes1846 elicitor1848 beach-man1867 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > decoding, deciphering > [noun] > one who decodes decipherer1587 decoder1920 cryptanalyst1921 code breaker1925 code cracker1939 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Pref. sig. ***iv Anatomists or Decipherers of nature [Fr. Anatomistes de nature]; such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Qq1v Suppose that Cyphars were well managed, there bee Multitudes of them which exclude the Discypherer. View more context for this quotation a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) lii. 529 That name which was given to Ioseph..doth truly signifie Revelatorem Secretorum, and no more, a Revealer, a Discoverer, a Decypherer of secret and mysterious things. 1724 Hist. Reg. 1714–16 II. Chronol. Diary 63 John Keil, Esq.; appointed his Majesty's Decypherer. 1739 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 67/1 Court Favourites..Decypherers, Spies, Pimps and Informers. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xvi. 100 The message came in an imperfect state. Part of it was..beyond all the power of the decipherer. 1882 Shorthand 1 34 The decipherers exhibit great skill in reading their principal's [shorthand] notes. 1924 Cambr. Anc. Hist. II. xi. 253 More [tablets], however, are couched in some six native allied dialects, according to the latest decipherers. 1961 M. Savill tr. E. Doblhoffer Voices in Stone ix. 289 Babinger sent a photograph..to the decipherer of the Old Turkish runes, Vilhelm Thomsen. 2010 W. W. Hallo World's Oldest Lit. iv. i. 257 Much of this literature is only at this moment beginning to yield to the spade of the excavator and the cryptographic skills of the decipherer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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