Both Uses of
abstruse
in
The Gold-Bug
- These characters, as any one might readily guess, form a cipher—that is to say, they convey a meaning; but then, from what is known of Kidd, I could not suppose him capable of constructing any of the more abstruse cryptographs.†
abstruse = difficult to understand; or not known by the great majority of people
- Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater.†
*abstruseness = the quality of being difficult to understand