Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who interprets what is written in ciphers, or reads what is written obscurely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who deciphers.
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- noun A person who
deciphers
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- noun the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
- noun a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text
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Examples
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Sibylline Leaves of 1817, in the title of which is implicit the same play of meaning suggested by Mary's authorial persona, self-characterized as the "decipherer" of these discoveries in the "slight Sibylline pages" (pp. 3, 4).
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Mabel became the first real decipherer of Emily's poems, almost by accident.
Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds" 2010
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Because he finds himself radically inscrutable, Ashbery is, more thoroughly than any other poet of our era, a reader of his own poems, a decipherer, often (like his readers) suspended in a state of anxious partial knowledge.
Papa 2009
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As soon as you turn your back on the uncertain sunrise and enter your office building, you cease to be Miguel Sáenz, the civil servant discernible behind the wrinkled gray suit, round, wire-rimmed glasses, and fearful gaze, and become Turing, decipherer of secrets, relentless pursuer of encoded messages, the pride of the Black Chamber.
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According to the law of probabilities, in a well-constructed cipher there would be two, three, or even four hundred chances against one, that in each mark the decipherer would not discover the syllable of which it was the representative.
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Walsingham spies therefore frequently offered to carry letters for him, and eventually the treacherous Gilbert Gifford a seminarist who afterwards got himself made priest in order to carry on his deceits with less suspicion contrived a channel of correspondence, in which every letter was sent to or from Mary passed through the hands of Elizabeth's decipherer Thomas Phellips, and was copied by him.
Mary Queen of Scots de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Walsingham spies therefore frequently offered to carry letters for him, and eventually the treacherous Gilbert Gifford a seminarist who afterwards got himself made priest in order to carry on his deceits with less suspicion contrived a channel of correspondence, in which every letter was sent to or from Mary passed through the hands of Elizabeth's decipherer Thomas Phellips, and was copied by him.
Archive 2007-12-02 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Sometimes I have thought, that, obscure and chaotic as they are, they owe their present form to me, their decipherer.
Introduction, I.1 2002
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For suppose that ciphers were well managed, there be multitudes of them which exclude the decipherer.
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Sometimes I have thought, that, obscure and chaotic as they are, they owe their present form to me, their decipherer.
The Last Man 2003
fbharjo commented on the word decipherer
and breaks the bar code????????
November 1, 2008