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Definition of Cryptical
1. Adjective. Of an obscure nature. "Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
Similar to: Incomprehensible, Inexplicable
Derivative terms: Inscrutability, Mystery
2. Adjective. Having a secret or hidden meaning. "Thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"
Similar to: Esoteric
Derivative terms: Cabala, Kabbala, Qabala
Definition of Cryptical
1. Adjective. cryptic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cryptical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptical
Literary usage of Cryptical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1899)
"Perhaps by the application of the cryptical theory important side-lights have
... These statements have been deduced from papers in which the- cryptical ..."
2. Logic by Immanuel Kant (1819)
"Formal and cryptical Syllogisms of Reason. A syllogism of reason in due form ...
The cryptical syllogisms are opposed to the formal ones. ..."
3. Life and Manners: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"I forget whether, in the Bishop of Chester's account of this cryptical language,
the consonant intercalated be G or not. Evidently any consonant will answer ..."
4. An Introduction to the Elements of Science by St. George Jackson Mivart (1894)
"[The parts in black type are relics of two hidden or cryptical syllogisms.]
Thus written out at length the ..."
5. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas De Quincey (1853)
"recorded and accurately .described amongst many other modes of cryptical ...
I forget whether in the Bishop of Chester's account of this cryptical language ..."
6. De Quincey's Writings by Thomas De Quincey (1853)
"recorded and accurately described amongst many other modes of cryptical ...
I forget whether in the Bishop of Chester's account of this cryptical language ..."
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