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Crypt vs Clypt - What's the difference?

crypt | clypt |

As a noun crypt

is an underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.

As a verb clypt is

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crypt

English

(wikipedia crypt)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
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  • (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the body

    • See also

    * encrypt (slang)

    clypt

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1546–62', John Heywood, ''Of rebellion'', in ''The Poverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood'' (' 1867 ), page 201:
    • Hast thou any clypt syluer? [...] Hast thou any crekt grote?
  • * 1595–1662, Henry Lawes, A Dream :
    • I laid me down upon a pillow soft,
    And dream'd I clypt and kissed my mistress oft:
    She cried, Fie fie, away, you are too bold.
    I pray'd her be content, though she were cold;
    My veins did burn with flames of hot desire,
    And must not leave till she had quench'd my fire.
  • * 1886–1918, Joyce Kilmer, Ballade of my Lady's Beauty :
    • Squire Adam had two wives, they say,
    Two wives had he, for his delight,
    He kissed and clypt them all the day
    And clypt and kissed them all the night.