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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Recondite (born Lorenz Brunner in Lower Bavaria ) is a German musician , techno producer, label owner and sound artist .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "removed or hidden from view," from Old French recondit , from Latin reconditus , past participle of recondere "store away, hide, conceal, put back again, put up again, lay up," from re- "away, back" (see re- ) + condere "to store, hide, put together," ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recondite \Rec"on*dite\ (r[e^]k"[o^]n*d[imac]t or r[-e]k[o^]n"d[i^]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 .] Hidden from the mental or intellectual ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eyre's down-to-earth style was well suited to the exploration of these recondite matters. ▪ Such teachings are very recondite and need considerable study to understand fully.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (qualifier: of areas of study and literature) difficult, obscure; particularly: 2 # abstruse, profound, difficult to grasp 3 # esoteric, little known; secret 4 # (qualifier: of writers) deliberately obscure; employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or ...

Usage examples of recondite.

And I do confess I am loath to throw my money in with this new Bank, and my lot in with this Juncto, when our money is to be recoined by a savant whose ideas are recondite, and whose motives are a source of endless puzzlement to me.

Luseferous turned to watch the Recondite Splicer tear the giant leeches apart and eat them, violently shaking its great patchily brown head and tossing some bits of slimy black flesh all the way out of the tank.

Sir, the bottle, la Dive Bouteille, is a recondite oracle, which makes an Eleusinian temple of the circle in which it moves.

Nowadays these people wait with bearded lips agape for my tritest pronouncement, and listen, more avidly than any other congregation I have ever known, to my most recondite sermons.

High-spiritedly she was arching herself backwards, to reveal (i) that little girls in nudist camps are healthy and can do the crab, and (ii) her cunt, in order to sate the more recondite predilections of certain cineastes - one of whom, a mackintoshed compost-heap, was sitting immobile, like a toadstool, not even wanking, in a wide circle of unoccupied seats.