(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:50:07

Cryp"tic (kr?p"t?k), Cryp"tic*al (-t?-kal), a. [L. crypticus, Gr., fr. to hide.]

Hidden; secret; occult.

"Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working."

Glanvill.

 

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