28 November 2014

recondite

[rek-uh n-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt]

adjective
1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter:
a recondite treatise.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric:
recondite principles.
3. little known; obscure:
a recondite fact.

Origin

Latin

1640-1650; earlier recondit < Latin reconditus recondite, hidden (orig. past participle of recondere to hide), equivalent to re- re- + cond (ere) to bring together ( con- con- + -dere to put) + -itus -ite2

Related forms
reconditely, adverb
reconditeness, noun
unrecondite, adjective

Synonyms
2. deep. 3. mysterious, occult, secret.

Antonyms
2. exoteric. 3. well-known.

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Examples from the web for recondite
– There seems to be no recondite meaning in the piece.
– Well, anyone who has ever pored over a scientific research paper will recall its recondite jargon.
– But these are never presented in order to dazzle us with recondite knowledge alone.

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Today’s aphorism

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

On this day

28 November 1968 – death of Enid Blyton, British author of numerous series of children’s stories, including ‘Noddy‘, ‘Famous Five‘, and ‘Secret Seven‘. (Born 1897).

28 November 1990 – UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation following disendorsement by her Cabinet on 22 November 1990.

28 November 1994 – U.S. serial killer and cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer, bashed to death while cleaning a prison toilet. Dahmer was serving 15 life sentences for the murder of 15 men and boys. He had initially faced 17 murder charges, but this had been reduced.