Definition of Cryptically

1. Adverb. In a cryptic manner. "We will meet again,"

Exact synonyms: Enigmatically, Mysteriously
Partainyms: Cryptic, Enigmatic, Mysterious

Definition of Cryptically

1. adv. Secretly; occultly.

Definition of Cryptically

1. Adverb. In a cryptic manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cryptically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptically

cryptand
cryptands
cryptarithm
cryptarithmic
cryptarithms
cryptate
cryptates
cryptectomy
cryptenamine acetates
cryptic
cryptic coloration
cryptic crossword
cryptic crosswords
cryptic plasmid
cryptical
cryptically (current term)
crypticity
cryptick
cryptics
cryptid
cryptidine
cryptids
cryptitis
cryptlike
crypto
crypto-
crypto-fascism
crypto-fascist
crypto-fascistic
crypto-fascists

Literary usage of Cryptically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"I think that the golden rule with all cryptically coloured animals, and one that they seem to follow with almost unvarying regularity, is, when in presence ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... cryptically (krip'tï-kal-i), (ich: Secretly; in an occult manner. We take the word acid in a familiar sense, without cryptically distinguishing it from ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Christ's humanity is capable of deity ; God lives in Him now openly, now cryptically, but ever really ; and His humanity so penetrates the Deity as to touch ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"In answer to his entreaty: "Raise the veil, I beg," she replied cryptically, and, as it would seem at first sight, irrelevantly: "Widows don't wear it"; ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The unbiased reader of Munro's article will not, I think, feel the same necessity that Skoog so cryptically confesses. Before proceeding to a discussion of ..."

6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"... on the wheel of the zodiac; he even thinks that the author cryptically indicates the astronomical times of Christ's conception, birth and baptism. ..."

7. The Bookman (1910)
"An Englishman would at first have stared and then laughed, and then perhaps he would have exclaimed rather cryptically : You may be sure that his cheeks ..."

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