Cryptographist

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Cryp`tog´ra`phist


n.1.Same as Cryptographer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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My first endeavor was to divide the sentence into the natural division intended by the cryptographist."
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I have often thought, my friend, that it must have puzzled these dogmaticians of a thousand years ago, to determine, even, by which of their two boasted roads it is that the cryptographist attains the solution of the more complicate cyphers--or by which of them Champollion guided mankind to those important and innumerable truths which, for so many centuries, have lain entombed amid the phonetical hieroglyphics of Egypt.
Poe's hieroglyphic universe: the master keys
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