reˈcipher, v.
Also recypher.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To encipher again (a message that is already in cipher). Hence reˈcipher n.; reˈciphering vbl. n.
| 1961 in Webster. 1963 Times 21 May 7/3 He said the purpose of such a table would be to convert plain language letters or punctuation into figures which could then be subsequently reciphered on a reciphering pad. 1975 C. Mott-Radclyffe Foreign Body in Eye ii. 28, I remember one telegram, all in re-cypher, beginning, ‘I saw the Minister of Foreign Affairs on return from leave yesterday. His Excellency remarked how sunburnt I was looking after my recent holiday in Ireland.’ |