Crypt

Crypt
Crypt Crypt (kr[i^]pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See {Grot}, {Grotto}.] 1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory. [1913 Webster]

Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. --Motley. [1913 Webster]

My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk["u]hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • Crypt — • The word originally meant a hidden place, natural or artificial, suitable for the concealment of persons or things Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Crypt     Crypt      …   Catholic encyclopedia

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  • crypt- — [kript] combining form CRYPTO : used before a vowel * * * crypt pref. Variant of crypto . * * * …   Universalium

  • crypt- — ⇒CRYPT(O) , (CRYPT , CRYPTO )élément préf. Élément préf. tiré du gr. « caché », entrant dans la compos. de nombreux termes composés sc., de bot. et d entomol. en partic., et indiquant soit, avec valeur adj., le caractère caché ou imperceptible de …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Crypt... — Crypt... (v. gr.), verborgen …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • crypt — [krıpt] n [Date: 1700 1800; : Latin; Origin: crypta, from Greek, from kryptos; CRYPTO ] a room under a church, used in the past for burying people →↑vault …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • crypt — [ krıpt ] noun count an underground room where the bodies of dead people are buried, usually under a church …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • crypt — early 15c., grotto, cavern, from L. crypta vault, cavern, from Gk. krypte (short for krypte kamara hidden vault ), fem. of kryptos hidden, verbal adj. from kryptein to hide, from PIE *krau to conceal, hide (Cf. O.C.S. kryjo, kryti …   Etymology dictionary

  • crypt — [n] burial place catacomb, cave, cavern, cell, chamber, compartment, grave, grotto, mausoleum, room, sepulcher, tomb, undercroft, vault; concept 305 …   New thesaurus

  • crypt — ► NOUN ▪ an underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place. ORIGIN Greek krupt a vault , from kruptos hidden …   English terms dictionary

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