irrecondite

English

Etymology

ir- +‎ recondite

Adjective

irrecondite (comparative more irrecondite, superlative most irrecondite)

1. Not recondite; well-known.
   • 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 Van Edward Cave), 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...

   • 1805, Titus Lucretius Carus, The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem, page 106

     ...than a physical or metaphysical philosopher ; and hence his creed was either deficient upon the subject of eosmology, or too simple and irrecondite to satisfy...

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