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"text": "But I hope this new Messenger from Heauen doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron to these rauishing (but impouerishing) studies, by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and diuine science [astronomy] shall at length be manifested.",
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"ref": "1644, J[ohn] B[ulwer], “Certain Cavtionary Notions, Extracted out of the Ancient and Moderne Rhetoricians, for the Compleating of this Art of Manuall Rhetorique, and the Better Regulating the Important Gestures of the Hand & Fingers”, in Chirologia: or The Naturall Language of the Hand. […] Whereunto is added Chironomia: Or, The Art of Manuall Rhetoricke. […], London: Printed by Tho[mas] Harper, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford, […], →OCLC, page 137",
"text": "[T]here 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.",
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"ref": "1722, Francis Lee, An Epistolary Discourse, Concerning the Books of Ezra, Genuine and Spurious: But More Particularly the Second Apocryphal Book under that Name, and the Variations of the Arabick Copy from the Latin. […], London: Printed by Geo[rge] James; sold by M. Smith, […], →OCLC, §46, page 41",
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"ref": "1850, “Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, among the Anglo-Saxons. No. II. The Druids. […]”, in The Anglo Saxon, London: T. Bosworth, […], →OCLC, page 226",
"text": "[T]heir [the Druids'] Bards (sometimes sweet and delightful) were more often wild and fantastic, even unto madness! their Eubages affect the reconditest secrets of physical philosophy; and their female Druids, like the Sibyls of old, were often maniac with self-delusions, and with idle, but ingeniously contrived prophetic tidings!\nThis superlative form appears to be a nonce.",
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"ref": "1920, Joseph Conrad, “Author’s Note”, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (The Works of Joseph Conrad), London: William Heinemann, published 1921, →OCLC, page xvii",
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"ref": "1992 autumn, The American Scholar, volume 61, Washington, D.C.: United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 576, column 1",
"text": "It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany—taciturn, dumpy, physically unprepossessing, and a scholarship boy to boot—working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time.",
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"ref": "2004 September 28, Alexander McCall Smith, chapter 21, in The Sunday Philosophy Club, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 224",
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"ref": "1884, George T[itus] Ferris, “Bach”, in The Great German Composers (Appletons’ New Handy-volume Series), New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, section I, page 10",
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"ref": "1998, Gene H. Bell-Villada, “Introduction: The Idea, the Phrase, the Problem”, in Art for Art’s Sake & Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology & Culture of Aestheticism 1790–1990 (Stages), Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, page 1",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide."
],
"tags": [
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"rare",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹɪˈkɒndaɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹiˈkɑnˌdaɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-uk-recondite.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/En-uk-recondite.oga/En-uk-recondite.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/En-uk-recondite.oga",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
}
],
"word": "recondite"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "recondite",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "recondito"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of recondito"
],
"links": [
[
"recondito",
"recondito#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "recondite"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "recondite",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 4-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "recondō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person plural present active imperative of recondō"
],
"links": [
[
"recondō",
"recondo#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/reˈkon.di.te/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[rɛˈkɔn̪d̪ɪt̪ɛ]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/reˈkon.di.te/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[reˈkɔn̪d̪it̪e]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "recondite"
}
{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''Hidden or removed from view.'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"recondite"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "recondite",
"trace": ""
}
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