decinert

Same as decenner. decipher (dē-si'fer), v. t. [After OF. dechiffrer, F. déchiffrer = Sp. descifrar = Pg. decifrar = It. dec if rare, dec i fer are, dicifrare, diciferare, The virtues of them [ciphers], whereby they are to be preferred, are three that they be not laborious to write and read; that they be impo ible to decipher ; and in some cases, that they be without suspicion. Bacon , Advancement of Learning (original English ed.), [Works, 402. IMG:content-2161.png:[blocks in formation] That you are both decipher'd , that's the news, For villains mark'd with rape. Shak . , Tit. And., iv. 2. I have spoke with her, and we have a nay-word, how to know one another. I come to her in white and cry "mum", she cries "budget"; and by that we know one another. But what needs either your "mum," or her "budget"? the white will decipher her well enough. Shak., M. W. of W., v. 2. 61. To write in cipher; conceal by means of a cipher or other disguise. [Rare.] To be plain with you, I am the very man deciphered in his book, under the name of Venator. Cotton , in Walton's Angler, ii. 225. =Syn. 1-3. To interpret, make out, unravel. deciphert (dē-sĩ'fèr), n. [ decipher , v.] A description. He was a Lord Chan cell our of France, whose decipher agrees exactly with this great prelate, sometime Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, II. 220.