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Webster 1913 Edition

{

(krĭp′tĭk)

(-t?-kal)

, }

Adj.

[L.

crypticus

, Gr.

κρυπτικός

, fr.

κρύπτειν

to hide.]

Hidden; secret; occult.

“Her [nature’s] more cryptic ways of working.”

Glanvill.

, CRYPTICAL,

Adj.

Hidden; secret; occult.

cryptical ‎(comparative more cryptical, superlative most cryptical)

cryptic
- 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath:
  Many times the moon hears strange music as it shines on those courts and terraces and pinnacles, but whether that music be the song of the god or the chant of the cryptical priests, none but the King of Ilek-Vad may say; for only he has entered the temple or seen the priests.