Both Uses
recondite
in
Moby Dick
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- But to learn all about these recondite matters, your best way is at once to descend into the blubber-room, and have a long talk with its inmates.†
Chpt 94-96 *recondite = incomprehensible to people of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers.†
Chpt 103-105
Definitions:
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(1)
(recondite) incomprehensible to people of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)