Definition of "ciphered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of cipher. (verb)

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• "He informed me about his excellent progress in a meticulously ciphered message that came by email last week."
• "In the cipher's most developed state, the first word of a ciphered message was a key word, indicating the number of columns and lines into which the subsequent words needed to be arranged as well as the route for reading them correctly."
• "The elimination of the troublesome Catholic exile Reginald Pole was an idea cooked up by Wyatt and others in 1539; some ciphered letters remain, and some loose talk about the efficacy of quick-acting "Spanish poison", but it was more of a notional chess move than a genuine plot and nothing came of it."