recondite : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: recondite	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for recondite
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): abstruse, deep, recondite
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recondite \Rec"ondite\ (r?k"?nd?t [or] r?k?n"d?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. [bd]Recondite learning.[b8] --Bp. Horsley.