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Grammar : Adj |
Spell : rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn daɪt |
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Définition of recondite
Origin :- 1640s, "removed or hidden from view," from Old French recondit, from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere "store away, hide, conceal, put back again, put up again, lay up," from re- "away, back" (see re-) + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" (see con-) + -dere "to put, place," comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1650s; of writers or sources, "obscure," it is recorded from 1817.
- adj mysterious, obscure
- Yet there is no need to apply any recondite or novel machinery.
- Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
- In the university that life is, she had acquired encyclopedias of recondite learning.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- In itself, it has no recondite meaning, it answers fully its own sweet purpose.
- Extract from : « Spare Hours » by John Brown
- If he had recondite and "artistic" feelings, he indulged them also without shame.
- Extract from : « Visions and Revisions » by John Cowper Powys
- And we have legends in recondite books of the manner of the King's death.
- Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Recondite meanings of things are suggested to you, and words—what words they are!
- Extract from : « Letters of Pliny » by Pliny
- It is, if properly considered, as recondite a science as mathematics.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850 » by Various
- It has been called "a recondite treatise on the subject of railway times."
- Extract from : « The Strand Magazine » by Various
- Not the most recondite and secret part of our house had escaped their search.
- Extract from : « A Legend of Reading Abbey » by Charles MacFarlane
- No question was too sacred, grave, or recondite for this tribunal.
- Extract from : « Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 1 (of 20) » by Charles Sumner
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