About The Word Recondite
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Recondite
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What's The Definition Of Recondite?
[adj] difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Recondite: abstruse | deep | esoteric Related Terms | Find terms related to Recondite: See Also | Recondite In Webster's Dictionary \Rec"on*dite\ (r?k"?n*d?t or r?*k?n"d?t; 277), a. [L.
reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to
conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together.
See {Abscond}.]
1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret;
abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as,
recondite studies. ``Recondite learning.'' --Bp. Horsley.
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