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rec·on·dite    Audio Help   [rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt] Pronunciation Key
–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: 1640–50; earlier recondit < L reconditus recondite, hidden (orig. ptp. of recondere to hide), equiv. to re- re- + cond(ere) to bring together (con- con- + -dere to put) + -itus -ite2]

rec·on·dite·ly, adverb
rec·on·dite·ness, noun

2. deep. 3. mysterious, occult, secret.
2. exoteric. 3. well-known.
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rec·on·dite    Audio Help   (rěk'ən-dīt', rĭ-kŏn'dīt')  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Not easily understood; abstruse. See Synonyms at ambiguous.
  2. Concerned with or treating something abstruse or obscure: recondite scholarship.
  3. Concealed; hidden.


[Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere, to put away : re-, re- + condere, to put together, preserve; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

rec'on·dite'ly adv., rec'on·dite'ness n.
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recondite 
1649, "removed or hidden from view," from L. reconditus, pp. of recondere "store away," from re- "away" + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" + -dere "to put, place." Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1652; of writers or sources, "obscure," it is recorded from 1817.

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recondite

adjective
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

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Recondite

Con"dite\, a. [L. conditus, p. p. of condire to preserve, pickle, season. See Recondite.] Preserved; pickled. [Obs.] --Burton.
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