Meanings of decipherer in English

Dr. Clarke, the Dean, Dr. Willes, the decipherer, and Dr. Gilbert of Llandaff, are candidates to succeed him.

Phillipps was the decipherer who had, he knew, been employed to interpret Queen Mary's letters after the Norfolk plot.

Sometimes I have thought, that, obscure and chaotic as they are, they owe their present form to me, their decipherer.

Heinrich Brugsch, my second teacher, was far superior to Lepsius as a decipherer and investigator of the various stages of the ancient Egyptian languages.

Perhaps professional decipherers-archaeologistsand cryptologists-woulddo better.

The decipherers, father and son, shut themselves up directly, and set to work with all imaginable zeal.

Telegrams, however, were going out and coming in all day; a whole array of cipherers and decipherers lived in different rookeries in London.

"I grant," said I, "that these hieroglyphics might well puzzle a more practised decipherer than myself.

He was the first of a second generation who, following Rawlinson and Oppert, decipherers as well as explorers, were able to read as they found.