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.
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
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.
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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