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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cryptic \Cryp"tic\ (kr[i^]p"t[i^]k), Cryptical \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cryptic adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: {cryptical}, {deep}, {inscrutable}, {mysterious}, {mystifying}] 2: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: {cabalistic}, {cryptical}, {sibylline}] 3: having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
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