recondite

Definitions

1. 1

   Difficult, obscure.

   • a recondite tractate on alchemy
   • Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects.
2. 2

   Hidden or removed from view.

   • The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.
   • My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.
   • The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.
3. 3

   A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.

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   1. 4

      A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her…

      A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.

      • They are on middle ground now, that area of jazz which welcomes hardy perennials as well as mellowed recondites.
   2. 5

      To conceal, cover up, hide.

      • Tendons: recondited, and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed.
      • To detail with perspicuity and elegance the facts which are recondited and preserved by others, is comparatively so easy a task, that a person of very limited experience might perform it with success; [...]

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