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cryptograph

[krip-tuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈkrɪp təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


VERB
encode
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A cryptograph used to manually code and decode messages—technology that was decades out-of-date by 2000.

From Slate ● May 9, 2018

As he did, the word cryptograph, a few paragraphs below, flashed into his vision like a red traffic light.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are the cherished baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch.

From Time Magazine Archive

He devised a cryptograph or machine for turning a message into cypher which could only be interpreted by putting the cypher into a corresponding machine adjusted to reproduce it.

From Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro

In this instance the translation of the cryptograph did not occupy much time; Diggory produced his double alphabet, and soon spelt out the word:— "To-night."

From The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs by Harold Avery


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