irrecondite
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]irrecondite (comparative more irrecondite, superlative most irrecondite)
- Not recondite; well-known.
- 1805, John Mason Good, “Appendix”, in Titus Lucretius Carus, translated by John Mason Good, The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page cvi:
- […] Socrates […] was rather a moral and political, than a physical or metaphysical philosopher; and hence his creed was either deficient upon the subject of cosmology, or too simple and irrecondite to satisfy the curiosity of his pupils.
- 1834, John Mason Good, Nature of the Animate World, page 336:
- ..than institutions of another class were found wanting: — a something that might fill up the space between the cloistered scholar and the irrecondite citizen ; the...
- 1840, Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, page 236:
- Let me see nothing too trim, nothing too irrecondite. Equal solicitude is not to be exerted on all ideas alike: some are brought into the fullness of light, some are […]