recondite
Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
(of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure.
(somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.
(rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
(rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.”
— 1649, John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia, ii. ii. 108:
“My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.”
— 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters, I. 209:
“The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.”
— 1823, Charles Lamb, Old Benchers in Elia, section 190: