reconditeadj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛk(ə)ndʌɪt/,

/rᵻˈkɒndʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈrɛkənˌdaɪt/,

/rəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/,

/riˈkɑnˌdaɪt/

Forms: 1600s recondit, 1600s– recondite.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin reconditus, recondere.

Etymology: < classical Latin reconditus hidden away, concealed, secret, hidden, secluded, abstruse, obscure, unintelligible, (of character) withdrawn, retiring, use as adjective of past participle of recondere to put away, to put back, to hide away, to re-establish < re- re- prefix + condere (see condite adj.³). Compare French †recondit hidden, secret (late 14th cent. in Middle French), Catalan recòndit hidden, private (16th cent.), Spanish recóndito hidden (c1600), Portuguese recôndito hidden, unknown, private (1640), Italian recondito hidden, secret (1485). Compare earlier recondite v.The position of the stress varied considerably in the 18th cent. Compare:1791 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. II. (at cited word) Dr. Johnson, Dr. Ash, Dr. Kenrick, Mr. Nares, Mr. Scott, Mr. Fry, and Entick, accent this word on the second syllable; Mr. Sheridan and Bailey on the last. Notwithstanding these authorities, I am mistaken if the best speakers do not pronounce this word with the accent on the first syllable, and if it is not agreeable to analogy to do so. A few words of three syllables from the Latin, when anglicised, without altering the number of syllables, have the accent on the same syllable as in the Latin, as Opponent, Deponent, &c.; but the general inclination of our language is to place the accent on the first syllable, as in Manducate, Indagate, &c.Pronunciations with stress on either the first or the second syllable are found from at least the 18th cent. onwards; in the latter type, the final syllable is occasionally recorded with a short vowel until the early 20th cent.

a. Esp. of a subject of study or discussion: little known or understood; abstruse, obscure; profound.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective]

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non-transparent1939

1619 J. Bainbridge Astron. Descr. Late Comet 42 I hope this new Messenger from Heauen doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron..by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and diuine science shall at length be manifested.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. iii. 186 That so his sublime and recondite doctrine might be the better hid up therein.

1672 Mede's Wks. Pref. In the more abstruse and recondite parts of Knowledge.

1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World ii. ii The recondite principles of philosophy.

1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible (ed. 2) 376 The origin of arts, or the recondite depths of science.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 197 In some cases the cause is obvious, and in others more recondite.

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure xxv. 392 This is all too recondite for me and the examples given are almost impossible ones for me to imagine.

a1894 R. L. Stevenson Amateur Emigrant (1895) 40 Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects.

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 141 It would have seemed to him ridiculous to suppose that there were any who would run risks for the sake of anything so recondite, so figurative, as passion.

1955 Times 5 Sept. 3/3 So then this predominantly French programme was recondite, esoteric, idiosyncratic and maybe other pleasurable things besides, but popular—never.

2001 J. Coe Rotters' Club (2002) 144 Orgasms, erogenous zones and other recondite facets of female sexuality.

b. Of study, discussion, etc.: consisting in, or relating to, little-known or abstruse knowledge; esoteric.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > of knowledge: well-founded, deep

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profound?c1422

soundc1440

recondite1644

solid1668

valid1851

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 137 There was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit, a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large possession of Divine and Humane Lawes.

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 40 in Scepsis Scientifica A close and recondite search into the Seminalities of Plants.

1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 90 Men of more recondite Studies, and what they call deep Learning.

1762 Hist. Apparitions i. 18 As for the manner of my Proceeding, I find no reason to be ashamed of it, for I can justify it, to men of good principles, discretion, and recondite learning.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iv. 63 A dispute, the most learned and recondite that ever took place.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §5 The office of the most recondite and abstract inquiries of Science.

1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Apr. 108/1 His recondite knowledge gives him the upper hand.

1992 Amer. Scholar Autumn 576/1 It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany..working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time.

c. Of language, literature, a literary source, etc.: obscure, little known.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective] > not known to many > lacking repute

unfamousc1384

dark?c1400

recondite1722

renownless1821

no-name1979

1722 F. Lee Epistolary Disc. 41 The Apostle Paul had taken up many things out of these Recondite and Apocryphal Writings.

1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 560 Elaborate researches into their recondite writings, made by those gentlemen who have applied themselves to the study of Sanskreet literature.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iii. 65 I look in vain for any writer who has conveyed so much information [as Southey], from so many and such recondite sources.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 263 His knowledge..in the recondite literature of the middle ages.

1865 Sat. Rev. 15 July 76/1 The traditional edition of a recondite classical author.

1921 J. Conrad Secret Agent Pref., in Wks. VIII. p. xvii Suggestions for certain personages..came from various sources which..some reader may have recognized. They are not very recondite.

1948 W. S. Maugham Catalina xv. 83 He was never at a loss for a recondite allusion.

2004 A. McCall Smith Sunday Philos. Club xxi. 224 While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life.

d. Of a writer: using abstruse or obscure allusions or references.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > of persons

mystical1516

recondite1788

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings II. v. i. 109 They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. II. xxii. 172 In the play of fancy, Wordsworth, to my feelings, is not always graceful and sometimes recondite.

1870 Times 31 Jan. 4/4 The more recondite the writer, the greater seems to have been his pleasure in the pursuit of knowledge.

1945 Musical Q. 31 55 Pepusch the organist, the recondite theorist-to-be, appears first as a viola-player in the orchestra of the Drury Lane Theatre.

1989 R. Poirier in Raritan Reading (1990) Pref. p. xiii Recondite theorists share office space with belletristic popularizers..who..under the guise of favoring the old verities, are at heart bitterly opposed to the pursuit of unaccustomed and uncomfortable truths.

2004 Amer. Scholar Autumn 129 The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.

a. Of a thing: removed or hidden from view; kept out of sight. Now somewhat archaic or literary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden

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1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. ii. 108 The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 848 The more recondite Seeds of Diseases, are seldom extirpated without Vomitories.

1701 M. Bee Lady's Perspective Glass 27 If you..had been so happy to have liv'd at the same time, and in the same Family (as the Apostles did) with our Saviour Christ, and had with them been let into his most recondite or cabinet Secrets.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. I. 209 My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.

1822 T. L. Peacock Maid Marian xiv. 197 The husband produced some recondite flasks of wine.

1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 190 The young urchins,..not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 526 What may be known of these recondite things.

1905 Polit. Sci. Q. 20 484 It is unsafe to disregard the often hidden and recondite, but none the less active, influence, exerted by each economic class upon the other.

1966 W. Percy Last Gentleman iv. viii. 189 Jamie's eyes..gazed back at him, not with their usual beamish expression, casting about for recondite areas of agreement in the space between them, but mockingly.

2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 253 Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream.

†b. Entomology and Botany. Not easily seen; hidden or concealed by another part. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1825 T. Say Gloss. Say's Entomol. 28 Recondite, (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 306 Recondite,..when the head is wholly covered and sheltered by the shield of the thorax.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 962/1 Recondite, concealed; not easily to be seen.

c. Retiring; avoiding notice. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adjective] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating

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recedent1849

1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 361 Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits..so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.

1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 316 The Pselaphidæ..bear a certain analogy to the Paussidæ, being, like them of recondite habits.

1965 I. Murdoch Red & Green v. 73 For a fleeting moment he had the suspicion that Millie led some secret life where, with other recondite suitors, she proceeded to lengths of which he never dreamed.

Derivatives

ˈreconditely adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adverb] > with profound knowledge

deeplyc1400

profoundly?a1425

reconditely1722

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adverb]

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1722 A. Cockburn Philos. Ess. Intermediate State of Blessed Souls 30 Aetherial Systems are unnecessary in the Future Existence, because the Soul can operate without them; contrary to what the Hypothesis reconditely implies.

1843 Times 14 July 6/1 To make that reconditely complicated and vastly expensive, which, by the old simple processes of our ancestors was easily intelligible and moderately cheap.

1854 G. Gilfillan Life Blair in J. Beattie Poet. Wks. 127 We could have conceived of him treating the subject more reconditely.

1933 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 5 Jan. 4/2 The gentlemen who are thus reconditely preaching technocracy..will do well..to come down to earth and set forth their ideas in terms that the ordinary citizen can comprehend.

2001 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 62 593 Whatever Columbus may have meant by ‘the secrets of the world’ and the desire of navigators to know them, he was probably not speaking reconditely or mystically.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	recondite
释义	reconditeadj. Brit. /ˈrɛk(ə)ndʌɪt/, /rᵻˈkɒndʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɛkənˌdaɪt/, /rəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/, /riˈkɑnˌdaɪt/ Forms: 1600s recondit, 1600s– recondite. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin reconditus, recondere. Etymology: < classical Latin reconditus hidden away, concealed, secret, hidden, secluded, abstruse, obscure, unintelligible, (of character) withdrawn, retiring, use as adjective of past participle of recondere to put away, to put back, to hide away, to re-establish < re- re- prefix + condere (see condite adj.³). Compare French †recondit hidden, secret (late 14th cent. in Middle French), Catalan recòndit hidden, private (16th cent.), Spanish recóndito hidden (c1600), Portuguese recôndito hidden, unknown, private (1640), Italian recondito hidden, secret (1485). Compare earlier recondite v.The position of the stress varied considerably in the 18th cent. Compare:1791 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. II. (at cited word) Dr. Johnson, Dr. Ash, Dr. Kenrick, Mr. Nares, Mr. Scott, Mr. Fry, and Entick, accent this word on the second syllable; Mr. Sheridan and Bailey on the last. Notwithstanding these authorities, I am mistaken if the best speakers do not pronounce this word with the accent on the first syllable, and if it is not agreeable to analogy to do so. A few words of three syllables from the Latin, when anglicised, without altering the number of syllables, have the accent on the same syllable as in the Latin, as Opponent, Deponent, &c.; but the general inclination of our language is to place the accent on the first syllable, as in Manducate, Indagate, &c.Pronunciations with stress on either the first or the second syllable are found from at least the 18th cent. onwards; in the latter type, the final syllable is occasionally recorded with a short vowel until the early 20th cent. 1. a. Esp. of a subject of study or discussion: little known or understood; abstruse, obscure; profound. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective] higheOE dighela1000 deepc1000 darkOE starkOE dusk?c1225 subtle1340 dimc1350 subtilea1393 covert1393 mystica1398 murka1400 cloudyc1400 hard?c1400 mistyc1400 unclearc1400 diffuse1430 abstractc1450 diffused?1456 exquisitec1460 obnubilous?a1475 obscure?a1475 covered1484 intricate?a1500 nice?a1500 perplexeda1500 difficilea1513 difficult1530 privy1532 smoky1533 secret1535 abstruse?1549 difficul1552 entangled1561 confounded1572 darksome1574 obnubilate1575 enigmatical1576 confuse1577 mysteriousa1586 Delphic1598 obfuscatea1600 enfumed1601 Delphicala1603 obstruse1604 abstracted1605 confused1611 questionable1611 inevident1614 recondite1619 cryptic1620 obfuscated1620 transcendent1624 Delphian1625 oraculous1625 enigmatic1628 recluse1629 abdite1635 undilucidated1635 clouded1641 benighted1647 oblite1650 researched1653 obnubilated1658 obscurative1664 tenebrose1677 hyperbyssal1691 condite1695 diffusive1709 profound1710 tenebricose1730 oracular1749 opaque1761 unenlightening1768 darkling1795 offuscating1798 unrecognizable1817 tough1820 abstrusive1848 obscurant1878 out-of-focus1891 unplumbable1895 inenubilable1903 non-transparent1939 1619 J. Bainbridge Astron. Descr. Late Comet 42 I hope this new Messenger from Heauen doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron..by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and diuine science shall at length be manifested. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. iii. 186 That so his sublime and recondite doctrine might be the better hid up therein. 1672 Mede's Wks. Pref. In the more abstruse and recondite parts of Knowledge. 1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World ii. ii The recondite principles of philosophy. 1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible (ed. 2) 376 The origin of arts, or the recondite depths of science. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 197 In some cases the cause is obvious, and in others more recondite. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure xxv. 392 This is all too recondite for me and the examples given are almost impossible ones for me to imagine. a1894 R. L. Stevenson Amateur Emigrant (1895) 40 Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 141 It would have seemed to him ridiculous to suppose that there were any who would run risks for the sake of anything so recondite, so figurative, as passion. 1955 Times 5 Sept. 3/3 So then this predominantly French programme was recondite, esoteric, idiosyncratic and maybe other pleasurable things besides, but popular—never. 2001 J. Coe Rotters' Club (2002) 144 Orgasms, erogenous zones and other recondite facets of female sexuality. b. Of study, discussion, etc.: consisting in, or relating to, little-known or abstruse knowledge; esoteric. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > of knowledge: well-founded, deep deepc1175 profound?c1422 soundc1440 recondite1644 solid1668 valid1851 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 137 There was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit, a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large possession of Divine and Humane Lawes. 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 40 in Scepsis Scientifica A close and recondite search into the Seminalities of Plants. 1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 90 Men of more recondite Studies, and what they call deep Learning. 1762 Hist. Apparitions i. 18 As for the manner of my Proceeding, I find no reason to be ashamed of it, for I can justify it, to men of good principles, discretion, and recondite learning. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iv. 63 A dispute, the most learned and recondite that ever took place. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §5 The office of the most recondite and abstract inquiries of Science. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Apr. 108/1 His recondite knowledge gives him the upper hand. 1992 Amer. Scholar Autumn 576/1 It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany..working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time. c. Of language, literature, a literary source, etc.: obscure, little known. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective] > not known to many > lacking repute unfamousc1384 dark?c1400 recondite1722 renownless1821 no-name1979 1722 F. Lee Epistolary Disc. 41 The Apostle Paul had taken up many things out of these Recondite and Apocryphal Writings. 1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 560 Elaborate researches into their recondite writings, made by those gentlemen who have applied themselves to the study of Sanskreet literature. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iii. 65 I look in vain for any writer who has conveyed so much information [as Southey], from so many and such recondite sources. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 263 His knowledge..in the recondite literature of the middle ages. 1865 Sat. Rev. 15 July 76/1 The traditional edition of a recondite classical author. 1921 J. Conrad Secret Agent Pref., in Wks. VIII. p. xvii Suggestions for certain personages..came from various sources which..some reader may have recognized. They are not very recondite. 1948 W. S. Maugham Catalina xv. 83 He was never at a loss for a recondite allusion. 2004 A. McCall Smith Sunday Philos. Club xxi. 224 While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life. d. Of a writer: using abstruse or obscure allusions or references. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > of persons mystical1516 recondite1788 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings II. v. i. 109 They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. II. xxii. 172 In the play of fancy, Wordsworth, to my feelings, is not always graceful and sometimes recondite. 1870 Times 31 Jan. 4/4 The more recondite the writer, the greater seems to have been his pleasure in the pursuit of knowledge. 1945 Musical Q. 31 55 Pepusch the organist, the recondite theorist-to-be, appears first as a viola-player in the orchestra of the Drury Lane Theatre. 1989 R. Poirier in Raritan Reading (1990) Pref. p. xiii Recondite theorists share office space with belletristic popularizers..who..under the guise of favoring the old verities, are at heart bitterly opposed to the pursuit of unaccustomed and uncomfortable truths. 2004 Amer. Scholar Autumn 129 The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another. 2. a. Of a thing: removed or hidden from view; kept out of sight. Now somewhat archaic or literary. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden dighela1000 dernc1000 wriena1250 privyc1300 unshewedc1386 wrapped1398 quatc1425 tectc1440 blinda1522 coucheda1522 dark1532 lurkingc1540 velated1542 hiddena1547 inclusive1554 concealed1558 secret1559 occult1567 disguised1594 occulted1598 derned1600 shrouded1600 latent1605 abstrused1608 supposed1608 unshown1614 enshielda1616 retruse1623 dissembled1631 researched1636 recondite1649 delitescent1653 larved1654 tected1657 bedilt1660 bosomed1667 inhidden1674 underground1677 abditive1727 secreted1756 unextruded1808 unprotruded1812 undisplayed1822 larvated1832 dissimulated1838 latescent1852 squat1956 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. ii. 108 The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 848 The more recondite Seeds of Diseases, are seldom extirpated without Vomitories. 1701 M. Bee Lady's Perspective Glass 27 If you..had been so happy to have liv'd at the same time, and in the same Family (as the Apostles did) with our Saviour Christ, and had with them been let into his most recondite or cabinet Secrets. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. I. 209 My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's. 1822 T. L. Peacock Maid Marian xiv. 197 The husband produced some recondite flasks of wine. 1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 190 The young urchins,..not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 526 What may be known of these recondite things. 1905 Polit. Sci. Q. 20 484 It is unsafe to disregard the often hidden and recondite, but none the less active, influence, exerted by each economic class upon the other. 1966 W. Percy Last Gentleman iv. viii. 189 Jamie's eyes..gazed back at him, not with their usual beamish expression, casting about for recondite areas of agreement in the space between them, but mockingly. 2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 253 Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream. †b. Entomology and Botany. Not easily seen; hidden or concealed by another part. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1825 T. Say Gloss. Say's Entomol. 28 Recondite, (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 306 Recondite,..when the head is wholly covered and sheltered by the shield of the thorax. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 962/1 Recondite, concealed; not easily to be seen. c. Retiring; avoiding notice. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adjective] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating retiringc1595 withdrawing1611 back1633 retreating1643 recondite1835 recedent1849 1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 361 Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits..so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species. 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 316 The Pselaphidæ..bear a certain analogy to the Paussidæ, being, like them of recondite habits. 1965 I. Murdoch Red & Green v. 73 For a fleeting moment he had the suspicion that Millie led some secret life where, with other recondite suitors, she proceeded to lengths of which he never dreamed. Derivatives ˈreconditely adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adverb] > with profound knowledge deeplyc1400 profoundly?a1425 reconditely1722 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adverb] darklyc1350 mistilya1382 murklya1400 obscurelya1527 muddily1648 unclearly1648 reconditely1722 abstrusely1734 1722 A. Cockburn Philos. Ess. Intermediate State of Blessed Souls 30 Aetherial Systems are unnecessary in the Future Existence, because the Soul can operate without them; contrary to what the Hypothesis reconditely implies. 1843 Times 14 July 6/1 To make that reconditely complicated and vastly expensive, which, by the old simple processes of our ancestors was easily intelligible and moderately cheap. 1854 G. Gilfillan Life Blair in J. Beattie Poet. Wks. 127 We could have conceived of him treating the subject more reconditely. 1933 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 5 Jan. 4/2 The gentlemen who are thus reconditely preaching technocracy..will do well..to come down to earth and set forth their ideas in terms that the ordinary citizen can comprehend. 2001 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 62 593 Whatever Columbus may have meant by ‘the secrets of the world’ and the desire of navigators to know them, he was probably not speaking reconditely or mystically. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † reconditev. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin recondit-, recondere. Etymology: < classical Latin recondit-, past participial stem of recondere (see recondite adj.). Compare recond v. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To hide, cover up. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)] heeleOE forhelec888 i-hedec888 dernc893 hidec897 wryOE behelec1000 behidec1000 bewryc1000 forhidec1000 overheleOE hilla1250 fealc1325 cover1340 forcover1382 blinda1400 hulsterc1400 overclosec1400 concealc1425 shroud1426 blend1430 close1430 shadow1436 obumber?1440 mufflea1450 alaynec1450 mew?c1450 purloin1461 to keep close?1471 oversilec1478 bewrap1481 supprime1490 occulta1500 silec1500 smoor1513 shadec1530 skleir1532 oppressa1538 hudder-mudder1544 pretex1548 lap?c1550 absconce1570 to steek away1575 couch1577 recondite1578 huddle1581 mew1581 enshrine1582 enshroud1582 mask1582 veil1582 abscondc1586 smotherc1592 blot1593 sheathe1594 immask1595 secret1595 bemist1598 palliate1598 hoodwinka1600 overmaska1600 hugger1600 obscure1600 upwrap1600 undisclose1601 disguise1605 screen1611 underfold1612 huke1613 eclipsea1616 encavea1616 ensconcea1616 obscurify1622 cloud1623 inmewa1625 beclouda1631 pretext1634 covert1647 sconce1652 tapisa1660 shun1661 sneak1701 overlay1719 secrete1741 blank1764 submerge1796 slur1813 wrap1817 buttress1820 stifle1820 disidentify1845 to stick away1900 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 32 Tendons: recondited, and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed. 1703 Athenian Oracle I. 345/2 They are recondited in Concave Matrices, ma[n]y of them fastned by a Spawn skin subtended from one Spawn bag to another. 1773 J. Stonhouse Universal Restitution Vindicated i. iv. 11 The Point is to demonstrate that it is, not where and in what Place it is recondited. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < adj.1619v.1578
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reconditeadj.

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† reconditev.