Verb (used with object) : to decipher a hastily scribbled note. ,to decipher hieroglyphics. ,to decipher a secret message. From Dictionary.com.
Ryan has once again deciphered your code words and found you morally lacking. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » TABOR Defeat Rattles Right Wing] Reference
Find the organizing substructure and you've "deciphered" (they write tellingly) the poem. From Wordnik.com. [Three or Four Ways of Looking at an Urn] Reference
"Have you ever deciphered the paper?" asked Gualtier. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
This is the third proper name which has been deciphered. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference
It was deciphered and published by the learned Selden in 1628. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He has deciphered so many deceipts as amount to above £11,000. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
"Now I want you to read again the part that I deciphered," said. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
With great difficulty Marjory deciphered the following lines. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
With considerable difficulty we deciphered the following lines. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
The language was unknown to all but Muflog, who deciphered it as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Having deciphered the message, the boys gazed questioningly at one another. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
Thirty-one names have been deciphered, and there seem to be traces of three more. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Penloe laughed, and said: "They are different to any I have ever seen deciphered.". From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
Safely might we have been permitted to do so, for we could hardly have deciphered at. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Parts were entirely eaten away, and after a time the following words were deciphered. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages] Reference
Two hours later and we're still standing there as if we'd deciphered the Rosetta stone. From Wordnik.com. [HEAVENLY METAL] Reference
We are sorry to say that three letters, faintly traceable, are all that can now be deciphered. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
'And' is another word which may be discovered and deciphered, it is of such frequent occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Pictures of Passions, Fancies, and Affections, poetically deciphered in variety of characters (no date). From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
And the physical sciences were deciphered only slowly, by a process of cut-and-try and cut-and-try again. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Giveaway] Reference
This first batch of poems that Mabel deciphered sold 11,000 copies within a year of its publication in 1890. From Wordnik.com. [Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds"] Reference
If anything else of interest had been detected, it would have to be deciphered from the film and tapes later. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
He deciphered enough to make him earnest to obtain what remained of the manuscript in the grocer's possession. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
But something had happened in August or September that Iraqi government officials have not yet fully deciphered. From Wordnik.com. [Unmasking the Insurgents] Reference
There was still a large number of papers to be deciphered, and a large addition to our knowledge might be expected. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Marks on lockplate illegible, but enough can be deciphered to show that it was made by H. Aston, of Middleton, Conn. From Wordnik.com. [A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"] Reference
Man, and the hints taken from the deciphered writings of the aliens had radically changed Man's notions of government. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Giveaway] Reference
Hard Cell: Geeks deciphered IBM-Sony-Toshiba's top-secret Pentium-slaying Cell chip at Ars technica (arstechnica. com). From Wordnik.com. [BLOG WATCH] Reference
He also, through his analysis of the symbolic language da Vinci employed, has deciphered what he calls The Mona Lisa Code. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Sterling: Solving A Centuries-Old Mystery: "Who Is That Lady?" "That's No Lady, That's Mona Lisa."] Reference
But she took the precaution to efface the portion relating to herself, yet not so perfectly as to prevent its being deciphered. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
He had wit enough to keep his advantage, for there was something to read on the upturned face that must not be deciphered in haste. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Kennon slowly deciphered the ancient script he admired the courage even as his mind winced with dismay at the unheeding recklessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
Outside the door is an old cross, brought from Gwinear, which is supposed to be Anglo-Saxon; its inscriptions have never been deciphered. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The same Hebrew words are read by different sets of vowel points, and the same hieroglyphics are deciphered by keys everlastingly varied. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
They are widely different in character, but studied together they render legible much that refuses to be deciphered in either realm alone. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
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