Both Uses of
abstruse
in
Paradise Lost
- Mean while the Eternal eye, whose sight discerns
Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy mount,
And from within the golden lamps that burn
Nightly before him, saw without their light
Rebellion rising; saw in whom, how spread
Among the sons of morn, what multitudes
Were banded to oppose his high decree;
And, smiling, to his only Son thus said.†Book 5abstrusest = the most difficult to understand; or the least known by people
- studious thoughts abstruse
Book 8 *abstruse = difficult to understand
Definition:
difficult to understand; or not known by the great majority of people