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CRYPT, n. [Gr., to hide.] A subterranean cell or cave, especially under a church for the interment of persons; also, a subterranean chapel or oratory, and the grave of a martyr.
A vault wholly or partly under ground;
especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial
purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . .
treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of
antique learning. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. A simple gland,
glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of
Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small
intestines.
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