ciphered

Verb

cipher (third-person singular simple present ciphers, present participle ciphering, simple past and past participle ciphered)

1. (dated, intransitive, regional) To calculate.
   • I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.
2. (intransitive) To write in code or cipher.
3. (intransitive) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
4. (obsolete) To decipher.
   • Yea the illiterate that know not how
     To cipher what is writ in learned bookes,
     VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature [F4], recto

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