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incondite

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in⋅con⋅dite

  [in-kon-dit, -dahyt]
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–adjective
1. ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
2. crude; rough; unmannerly.
Origin:
1530–40; < L inconditus, equiv. to in- in- 3 + conditus ptp. of condere to put in, restore (con- con- + -di- put, set + -tus ptp. suffix)
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in·con·dite   (ĭn-kŏn'dĭt, -dīt')   
adj.  Badly constructed; crude.

[Latin inconditus : in-, not; see in-1 + conditus, past participle of condere, to put together; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
in·con'dite·ly adv.
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