Hypertext Webster Gateway: "recondite"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Recondite \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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" [syn: {abstruse}, {deep}]
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