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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decypher.
  • adjective Alternative spelling of deciphered.

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Examples

  • They were in two trunks (made exactly fit for them) that had the first letters of my christian and sirname decyphered upon them with nails; and on the first page of every book was my ordinary motto and name written at length in my own hand.

    English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871

  • Ably assisted by my mother, whose memory is good, I have decyphered the highly abbreviated key on the reverse, which consists only of surnames.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Hazlitt/Sidgewick: if majoritarianism is your thing (and, if I have decyphered your polemic correctly, it is), what is your view on the "legitimacy" of the states of Syria and Saudi Arabia, for example?

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Gone are his earlier claims that specific government actors built an eviction and internment program on specific top-secret decyphered cables.

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • The light step of Ianthe often accompanied Aubrey in his search after antiquities, and often would the unconscious girl, engaged in the pursuit of a Kashmere butterfly, show the whole beauty of her form, floating as it were upon the wind, to the eager gaze of him, who forgot the letters he had just decyphered upon an almost effaced tablet, in tho contemplation of her sylph-like figure.

    The Vampyre 2004

  • Parliament, under the name of ‘The Senate of Lilliput,’ sometimes with feigned denominations of the several speakers, sometimes with denominations formed of the letters of their real names, in the manner of what is called anagram, so that they might easily be decyphered.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • As to the first, the book quotes extensively from a handful of decyphered messages the “MAGIC” cables about Japanese efforts to develop some Issei and Nisei as spies for Japan.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT, Part 5: 2004

  • The second signal, ordering a boat and specifying the rdv, couldn't have gone in any other way but cypher: it was fully urgent and strictly hush and if the opposition had intercepted and decyphered it they'd have just sent someone down here to the twelve-pile breakwater half a mile north of the Golden Sands Hotel in Telegraph Bay with orders to tread all over my face.

    The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

  • These had been passed on to the B-Dienst code experts to see if they could be decyphered.

    Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

  • The Arabic manuscript decyphered and transcribed by me, is inserted in Mr. Bowdich's work, page 480.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

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