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 5
- studious thoughts abstruse
Book 8 *abstruse = difficult to understand
Definition:
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(abstruse) difficult to understand; or not known by the great majority of people