Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wholly or effectively concealing; specifically, incapable of being read except by one who has the key, as a cipher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
- adjective a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Wholly or completely
concealing ; incapable of beingdeciphered .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A lot of material: photostats, diagrammatic printouts, two sets of holocryptic gammas with red and black pages printed on nitrated cellulose, KGB/GRU Monome-Dinome tables with complete matrices and side and top co-ordinates, so forth.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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The March number explains an ingenious holocryptic cipher, written with the English alphabet, with no more letters than would be required for ordinary writing, yet so curiously complicated, that, while with the key easy to understand, it is without the key absolutely undecipherible, even to the inventor of the plan; and the key is capable of so many variations, that every pair of correspondents in Christendom may have their own cipher practically different from all others.
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