underground burial chamber, vault, tomb
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Crypt Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
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.
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.
(n.)
A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkuhn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkuhn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
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\crypt\ (kr&ibreve;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. priesthood works out its task age after age, treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. my knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.
2. (anat.) a simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Noun
1. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
(hypernym) burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
(classification) church service, church
Crypt Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
(PHP 3, PHP 4 )
crypt -- One-way string encryption (hashing)
string crypt ( string str [, string salt])
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crypt -- One-way string encryption (hashing)
string crypt ( string str [, string salt])
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Crypt Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In architecture, a crypt (from the Latin crypta and the Greek κρύπτη, kryptē; meaning concealed, private) is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics.
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