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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To put (a message, for example) into cipher.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To put into cipher. Also spelled encypher.

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  • verb To convert plain text into cipher; to encrypt

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  • verb convert ordinary language into code

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Examples

  • Someone who wanted to be especially devious could encipher a banal plaintext with the actually significant information embedded in the structure of the key.

    A Quick Fringe Cipher Follow-Up 2009

  • Section VI of the ten point statement declares: “Users of digital communication equipment, systems, or devices shall be able to utilize encipher technology in order to protect the privacy and security of their communications.”

    "eBill of Rights" Proposed by Politically Diverse Organizations 2008

  • These keys are used to encipher a message between a transmitter and

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 2005

  • The Nazis went to great lengths to encipher their secret messages, building mechanical scramblers.

    Boing Boing: June 26, 2005 - July 2, 2005 Archives 2005

  • There is training in code (for example, how to encipher the instruction "kill this devil") and training in the proper posture for shooting someone ( "the body should be normal, not tense, and the joints relaxed, not too tight, not too loose").

    Bin Laden's Invisible Network 2007

  • MTC is primarily a study of the properties of a channel of communication and of codes that can efficiently encipher data into recordable and transmittable signals.

    Semantic Conceptions of Information Floridi, Luciano 2005

  • I pointed out that it had taken him eighteen seconds to copy out his one-time pad groups and write his message beneath them, and another fifty seconds to encipher LONG LIVE TILTMAN.

    between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998

  • A short message of a few hundred characters would take all evening to encipher.

    Mayibuye Returns 1995

  • Some months earlier the comrades had asked us to develop an encryption system that would allow them to encipher and decipher their own files for safekeeping.

    Searching for a women's movement 1995

  • Some months earlier the comrades had asked us to develop an encryption system that would allow them to encipher and decipher their own files for safekeeping.

    Talking To Vula 1989

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