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Crypt Meaning & Definition
Crypt Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crypt?

[n] a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

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See Also | burial chamber | sepulcher | sepulchre | sepulture

Crypt In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 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 Lieberk["u]hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

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