cryptadia
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cryptadia pl (plural only)
- (very rare) Things to be kept secret.
- 1886 July 31, Notes and Queries, page 87:
- A list of the formulae, if not trenching upon the domain of cryptadia, might be desirable.
- 1951, NADA: The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department Annual:
- When long ago I penetrated the cryptadia of the Mashona concerning totemism, I did in fact find old traditions which supported the theory that totemism follows and implements the rules of the kinship system; but first it should be stated that some legends were certainly antithetical to this view.