01 n. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or…
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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.
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A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.(Anat.)