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decipher
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Same as decrypt.


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It seems to be something the British gave Page, with an indication that it was an early, partial, decipherment of ZT-2 made sometime be-fore Page was given the completely deciphered version.
redefined men's and women's relations with the sacred, with power, and with their community," or in the narrower sense of "the set of new acts arising out of the production" of texts and how those acts changed "festive, ritual, cultic, civic, and pedagogic uses [that] were by definition collective and postulated decipherment in common" (The Culture of Print: Power and Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989], 1).
Already in the nineteenth century, the recovery and decipherment of writings from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had caused an immense public stir.
 
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