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Crypt Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Crypt? [n] a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) Synonyms \| Synonyms for Crypt: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Crypt: alveolation \| alveolus \| ambry \| antrum \| apse \| armpit \| baptistery \| barrow \| basement \| basin \| beehive tomb \| blindstory \| bone house \| booth \| bowl \| box \| box grave \| burial \| burial chamber \| burial mound \| catacomb \| catacombs \| cave \| cavern \| cavity \| cell \| cellar \| cellule \| cenotaph \| chamber \| chancel \| charnel house \| choir \| cist \| cist grave \| cloisters \| compartment \| concave \| concavity \| confessional \| confessionary \| crater \| crib \| cromlech \| cup \| deep six \| depression \| diaconicon \| diaconicum \| dip \| dokhma \| dolmen \| Easter sepulcher \| enclosed space \| fold \| follicle \| funnel chest \| grave \| grotto \| hold \| hole \| hollow \| hollow shell \| house of death \| lacuna \| last home \| long home \| low green tent \| low house \| manger \| mastaba \| mausoleum \| monstrance \| mummy chamber \| narrow house \| nave \| ossuarium \| ossuary \| passage grave \| pew \| pit \| pocket \| porch \| presbytery \| punch bowl \| pyramid \| reliquary \| resting place \| rood loft \| rood stair \| rood tower \| room \| sacrarium \| sacristy \| scoop \| sepulcher \| shaft grave \| shell \| shrine \| sink \| sinus \| socket \| stall \| stupa \| tomb \| tope \| tower of silence \| transept \| triforium \| trough \| tumulus \| vault \| vestry \| vug 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.

Crypt Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crypt?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Crypt:

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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