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Adjective : a recondite treatise. ,recondite principles. ,a recondite fact. From Dictionary.com.
Like, the other day, in a social situation, somebody used the word "recondite" in conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
It's never helped me with the capital of Tajikistan or the definition of "recondite," but apparently it's got the goods on my hang-ups. From Wordnik.com. [Listen To My Body? I Don't Think So] Reference
"It served as a kind of recondite, East Village version of camp, classical Hollywood.". From Wordnik.com. [Advocate.com Daily News] Reference
To him, a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
There is nothing mysterious or recondite about it. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Penance hath renunciation for its recondite object. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Renunciation hath happiness for its recondite object. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Another, more recondite, but perhaps ironical, is "Put it on.". From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
The instance he gives is too recondite to be of general interest. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Truth hath the subjugation of the senses for its recondite object. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The subjugation of the senses hath charity for its recondite object. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Other pictures are said to riff on recondite passages from classical texts. From Wordnik.com. [Blake Gopnik on the Arcimboldo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art] Reference
It paves the way for more repulsive, though more recondite and valuable works. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
Yet proper cooking is not a recondite process, nor one beyond the simplest intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
From the point of my pencil emanate lines of recondite grace, so near the frost I write. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
These smaller banks strayed into a recondite area of finance without the necessary expertise. From Wordnik.com. [Luck Of The Wary] Reference
I have occasionally myself had evidence of his exact knowledge of very recondite portions of the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
One of the pitfalls of describing Fry is the tendency to veer towards language that is recondite. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Fry: The know-all who is everybody's friend] Reference
The obvious elements which enter into the fame of a public man are few and by no means recondite. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
What is here intended is something far more recondite than this superficial relation between Speech. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Yet this recondite portion of the Abbey presents few memorials of personages whom we care to remember. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Mrs. Richardson has found a quantity of rather recondite ones, and most of the favorites are given too. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
At some of their recondite utterances Brown fairly winced, and it soon became evident to all what was afoot. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The plan of the work before us necessarily excluded any great display of recondite learning or of profound speculation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
(Vol. ii., p. 153.) has propounded a dozen of most recondite and puzzling archaisms, upon which I have to offer a few notes. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850] Reference
Deeming this subject too recondite for his juvenile audience, he dropped it, and commenced a course of lectures upon physics. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Tommy goes to St. Mark's, a good Protestant place, or to the beach, where curious and recondite doctrines are weekly disputed. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
A recondite rendering of "contus" would surely give a sharper point to the joke and furnish the riddle with the sting of an epigram. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
The pictures there are more alive, more real, more intense, and fascinate many unable to appreciate the recondite charms of the canvas. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
It is most perfectly measured and described: one can follow the most recondite beauties of the construction, mouldings and joints, in these. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850] Reference
It is most perfectly measured and described; one can follow the most recondite beauties of the construction, mouldings and joints, in these. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850] Reference
His sincerity of purpose enlisted my admiration, but his explanation of the advantages accruing to his neophytes was too recondite for my understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It is not so much the whole physical and psychical cosmos that the German critic studies as the past history of art in its most recondite phases and most subtle divergences. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
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