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[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.

Motley.


My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.

Tennyson.


2. (Anat.) A simple gland,
glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of
Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small
intestines.


Crypt"al (-al), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to crypts.


{ Cryp"tic (kr&ibreve;p"t&ibreve;k),
Cryp"tic*al (-t?-kal), } a. [L.
crypticus, Gr. kryptiko`s, fr.
kry`ptein to hide.] Hidden; secret; occult.
"Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working."
Glanvill.


Cryp"tic*al*ly, adv. Secretly;
occultly.


Cryp"ti*dine (kr?p"t?-d?n; 104), n.


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