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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is skilled in cryptograms and their decipherment.
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He has burrowed in libraries and found unknown manuscripts like a savant, he has worked at misunderstood notations and found out a way of reading them like a cryptogrammatist, he has first found out how to restore and then how to make over again harpsichord, and virginals, and clavichord, and all those instruments which had become silent curiosities in museums.
Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905
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