Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An underground vault or chamber, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
- noun Anatomy A small pit, recess, or glandular cavity in the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hidden or secret recess; a subterranean cell or cave, especially one constructed or used for the interment of bodies, as in the catacombs.
- noun A part of an ecclesiastical building, as a cathedral, church, etc., below the chief floor, commonly set apart for monumental purposes, and sometimes used as a chapel or a shrine.
- noun In anatomy, a follicle; a small simple tubular or saccular secretory pit; a small glandular cavity: as, a mucous crypt (a follicular secretory pit in mucous membrane). See
follicle . Alsocrypta .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle.
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- noun An
underground vault , especially onebeneath achurch that is used as aburial place. - noun anatomy A small
pit orcavity in thebody
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- noun a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term crypt is sometimes used to signify the lower story of a two-storied building, e.g. the lower chapel of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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We actually talked to a man who's been inside that mausoleum, and he said there are what he calls crypt keepers inside who keep the people who don't own property, as he put it, inside, or shouldn't be in there, they keep them out.
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Perhaps Walt Disney and Madame Tussaud were inspired by places like this, but the Capuchin crypt will not remind you of their worlds, for in spite of all the talk about the great lengths the monks have gone to in order to create lifelike effects, it feels like somewhere that fell into disuse long ago.
Boing Boing 2008
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In the Paroquia don't forget to ask to visit the tomb of the first? or third? president of México whose crypt is in the basement.
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This building used to be a church, built by Souffelot, and the crypt is where many famous French people are buried.
"This life I'm living" skipperjbk8 2003
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This building used to be a church, built by Souffelot, and the crypt is where many famous French people are buried.
skipperjbk8: Like a lemon to the Lime and a Bumble to the Bee skipperjbk8 2003
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The dark and mysterious crypt is there, as is the iron grating, which is pointed to as indicating the exact position of the tomb.
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Caravaggio's bones found in Italian crypt after 400 years
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Caravaggio's bones found in Italian crypt after 400 years
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Caravaggio's bones found in Italian crypt after 400 years
agustinolvera commented on the word crypt
Eclispe by Stephenie Meyer Page 78
-"I'll stop by your crypt after school."
November 1, 2010