cryptograph

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A cryptograph used to manually code and decode messages—technology that was decades out-of-date by 2000.

From Slate • May 9, 2018

As he did, the word cryptograph, a few paragraphs below, flashed into his vision like a red traffic light.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are the cherished baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Natural history is not a cryptograph to be deciphered, it is a series of facts and incidents to be observed and recorded.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

The manuscript volume and the smaller document are written in different hands," he said, "the cryptograph is of much later date than the book; there is an undoubted proof of the correctness of my surmise.

From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules