crypt

[crypt]

A crypt is a vault for burying the dead and is often underneath or part of a church building. Crypt rhymes with "gripped," and if you saw a corpse come out of a crypt, you would definitely be gripped with terror.

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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.

Noun
a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)


n.
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.

n.
A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.


Crypt

Crypt (kr?pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. , fr. to hide. See Crot, Crotto.] 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.
My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.
2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberkhn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

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.

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