decipherer

He was the decipherer of the diary of Samuel Pepys.

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

Clarendon before 1660 made use of Henry as copyist, decipherer, and confidential secretary, in his correspondence with distant royalists.

One bundle was bigger than the rest, prompting Emma, a shrewd decipherer of art, to say, "Maybe her best friend is this big one."

Also a spell decipherer, he ventures away from Araimel with Luna to fight against the Goddesses.

Gifford even told how Walsingham's chief decipherer, Phelippes 'could take off Morgan to the life'.

And they spare no cost; there are proper officers for every part, and there is one reader and decipherer has £500 a year pension, besides other perquisites.

Jan-Olaf Tjäder, decipherer of the "great writing" of Ravenna (variant of the Roman cursive)

Heracles Pontor- A "decipherer of enigmas" whose name and physicality bear a strong similarity to those of a later detective, Hercule Poirot.

Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 - 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

His tutor at the Academy, Diagoras, enlists the help of a "Decipherer of Enigmas" (a detective named Heracles Pontor) to learn more about Tramachus's death.

The younger Mr. Stuart, who has translated glyphs since he was 10 years old, is now a senior at Princeton University and is considered the world's leading decipherer of Mayan syllable sounds.

Lunatia Araimel, a 14-year-old spell decipherer, and her 15-year-old friend, Roddy Lederide are the only ones that are able to escape from Araimel as the spell locks everyone in ice.

Scraps of Greek and Latin, Chinese and Japanese, even Provencal - is this, as Pound's masterly decipherer, Professor Hugh Kenner, suggests, a "patterned energy" or a display of ostentatious learning for its own sake?

The teacher, Peter Mathews, a Mayanist at La Trobe University in Australia and a pioneer decipherer, handed me papers bearing examples of common Maya hieroglyphs out of a lexicon numbering at least 800 signs.

The remainder of his surviving writings appeared in the United States and Israel many years after his death; all are titled Tzofnath Paneach "decipherer of secrets", (a title given to the Biblical Joseph by Pharaoh (Genesis 41:45)).

Among the Egyptologists whose works are included in the exhibition are Jean-Francois Champollon, decipherer of hieroglyphics; Giovanni Battista Belzoni, an excavator, and Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, one of the earliest scientific archeologists.

So, for example, if I should say, in a letter to a friend, 'Our brother Tom has just got the piles,' a skilful decipherer would discover, that the same letters which compose that sentence, may be analysed into the following words, 'Resist--, a plot is brought home--The tour.'

"The balloon landing in the Egyptian desert near Cairo, young de Castries plunged at once into a study of the Great Pyramid, assisted by his father's young Polish mistress (now his own), and by the fact that he was maternally descended from Champollion, decipherer of the Rosetta Stone.