Adjective : incondite prose. From Dictionary.com.
Ah, Lycinus, 'tis but a fledgeling of mine; 'tis all incondite. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
I beg your pardon, my dear fellow; but conduit, incondite, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
But indeed his actual Speeches, I apprehend, were not nearly so ineloquent, incondite, as they look. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
You mistake me; I said nothing of conduits; you are behind the times; incondite -- 'tis the word we use now when a thing lacks the finishing touches. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
A wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite; endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement; most crude, incondite; -- insupportable stupidity, in short!. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
The dearth of incondite phraseology, misspellings and grammatical errors on the FR Forum will send them into such rapid Thesaurus withdrawal, they will be claiming permanent didactic disability. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It was a wonderful London which within the same twenty years could harbour three men, like Blake, Coleridge and Shelley, in whom the incondite spirit which we call genius dwelt so near the surface of conscious being, and had such freedom to range. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
'Frederick,' an attempt (still in the way of youth - 16 rather than 60!) to vanquish by sheer force the immense masses of incondite or semi-condite rubbish which had accumulated on 'Frederick,' that is, to let the Printer straightway drive me through it!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Plenty of incondite stuff accordingly there was; new, and in a strangely new dialect and tone; the audience intelligent, partly fashionable, was very good to me, and seemed, in spite of the jumbled state of things, to feel it entertaining, even interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Thus much I've dared: if my incondite lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
For this it is too polemical, diffuse, incondite. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
D. quod tam incondite fcribam. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial of the Most reverend father in God Thomas Cranmer,sometime lord archbishop of Canterbury : Wherein the history of the church, and reformation of it, during the primacy of the said archbishop, are greatly illustrated; and many singular matters relating thereunto, now first published (1694.)] Reference
Thefe rudely carol moft incondite lay. From Wordnik.com. [Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ...] Reference
Appealing, as he may, to precedent in this matter, the scholar will still remember that if "the style is the man" it is also the age: that the nineteenth century too will be found to have had its style, justified by necessity -- a style very different, alike from the baldness of an impossible "Queen Anne" revival, and an incorrect, incondite exuberance, after the mode of Elizabeth: that we can only return to either at the price of an impoverishment of form or matter, or both, although, an intellectually rich age such as ours being necessarily an eclectic one, we may well cultivate some of the excellences of literary types so different as those: that in literature as in other matters it is well to unite as many diverse elements as may be: that the individual writer or artist, certainly, is to be estimated by the number of graces he combines, and his power of interpenetrating them in a given work. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference
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