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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, same as
crypt , 3.
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Arabinosides, for example, extracted from the Caribbean sponge, Tethya crypta, led to more than $50 million in annual sales from antiviral medicines.
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Est sub isto altari crypta, 42. granduum profunda, vbi sancta Helena Regina reperit tres cruces, videlicet Christi, et latronum cum eo crucifixorum, ac etiam clauos crucis Domini in cryptæ pariete.
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Est sub isto altari crypta, 42. granduum profunda, vbi sancta Helena Regina reperit tres cruces, videlicet Christi, et latronum cum eo crucifixorum, ac etiam clauos crucis Domini in crypt� pariete.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This crypta, that remained unimpaired during all the changes which the Cathedral must have undergone in the course of so many centuries, forms a nave with two arch-vaults and a round chancel.
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At its entrance is what is called the holy tomb, a very ancient group of figures representing Jesus Christ and his disciples on the mount of Olives, at the moment when the soldiers are going to seize the Lord: this group comes from the chapel of the Augustines, erected in 1378; it was placed in the crypta in
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Four of the inner pillars have still hinges affixed to them which prove that this portion of the crypta could be closed by a double door.
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Few ancient monuments are to be found at Naples; there is the piercing of the Posilipo ridge (crypta neapolitana), 815 yards in length, done by one
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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"Tell them I have escaped to the Palace of Augustus, through the crypta."
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Christians took possession of the temple and consecrated it to the memory of Pope Urbanus, the martyr, whose remains were buried close by, in the _crypta magna_ of the Catacombs of Prætextatus.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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It was the crypta or sacred place, where of old the everlasting fire was preserved.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
Jimmydiamond commented on the word crypta
The same as crypt , under a church
March 24, 2013