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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recondite
adjective
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▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recondite

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.]

  1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

  2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. ``Recondite learning.''
    --Bp. Horsley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recondite

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," from con- "together" (see con-) + -dere "to put, place," comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1650s; of writers or sources, "obscure," it is recorded from 1817.

Wiktionary
recondite

  1. 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 references 5 # (qualifier: of scholars) learned, having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiæ 6 (label en as a general term, somewhat archaic ; as a term in botany and entomology obscure rare) hidden or removed from view 7 (label en zoology rare) shy, avoiding notice (particularly human notice) v

  2. (label en obscure rare transitive) to hide, cover up, conceal

WordNet
recondite

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, deep]

Wikipedia
Recondite

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

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.

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.