CRYPT

crypt

(noun) a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

crypt (plural crypts)

(now, rare) A cave or cavern. [from 15th c.]

An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. [from 16th c.]

(anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. [from 19th c.]

Source: Wiktionary

Crypt (krpt), n. Etym: [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. Crot, Crotto.]

1. 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. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

2. (Anat.)

Definition: A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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