ˈcipherer
[f. as prec. + -er.]
1. One who ciphers.
| a 1648 Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 256, I conceive those figures were Ciphers only, signifying his true Age; unless perchance the Cipherer..did otherwise mistake it. |
2. One who writes or is skilled in writing in cipher.
| 1885 C. Lowe Bismarck I. 526 A devoted band of privy-councillors, secretaries, cipherers, newspaper-hacks. |
So ˈcipherist.
| 1902 Academy 1 Mar. 210/1 Lord Bacon was a literary man using a cypher, and not a cypherist blundering into immortal composition. |