incondite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconditus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkɒndɪt/

Adjective

incondite

1. Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).
   • 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page v:

     I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 17, in Lolita:

     I wish I might digress and tell you more ... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already.

2. Rough, unrefined.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Education, custome, continuance of time, condition, mixt with other diseases, by fits, inclination, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 4, page 172:

     [T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures, […].

Anagrams

• identicon, nicotined

Latin

Adjective

incondite

1. vocative masculine singular of inconditus

References

• “incondite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incondite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incondite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.