A perfect method must be based on the operations of mere surveying, and ought not to involve recondite physical considerations.
We have in this chapter to narrate a discovery of a recondite character, which illustrates in a forcible manner some of the fundamental truths of Astronomy.
And, now that the progress of science has opened new and extraordinary views in electricity, these views are not unnaturally applied by speculative reasoners to solve some of the mysterious and recondite phenomena of organised beings.
I wish to guard you against the adoption of any hypothesis on this recondite and abstruse subject.
With the example of many enchanted passages of allusion no less recondite occurring in the ballads of his own country-side, Lockhart might reasonably have been expected to have done much better than the last couplet.
What this recondite insult signified does not matter.
He has shaken off the rather reconditeeuphuism of some of the earlier passages, and has become more human and familiar.
Linnaeus gave to this lower grade of plants the name of Cryptogamia, thereby indicating that their organs answering to stamens and pistils, if they had any, were recondite and unknown.
A more tedious thing, with its recondite and archaic allusions to Pulteney and other Georgian personages, could not be conceived.
The origin of the famed statue had defied the mostrecondite searchers of the past.
If it meant anything it meant that he had killed Robert Champion for some recondite reason of his own--one with which she had no sort of connection.
I suppose Mr Cavanagh is able to supply you with little interesting details on all sorts of recondite subjects?
This leads to the question of individuality, a subject quite too large and too recondite for present discussion.
Yet the nebular hypothesis finds general scientific acceptance, and is adopted as the basis of an extended and recondite illustration in Mr. Agassiz's great work.
Next come in questions of criticism and taste, with their recondite and disputable premisses, and the usual deductions from them, so subtle and difficult to follow.
She owned to her recondite heart that she liked this in young Mavering, though at the same time she asked herself what motive he really had in being so polite to his father before people.
Meanwhile his gluttony for rare books on recondite matters kept him constantly poor, but proved a far better investment, as tools of trade, than his other and more speculative expenditures.
Almost all human nature can, in some measure, understand and feel the most exquisite and recondite image which only the rarest genius could produce.
The most subtle, the most exquisite part of his book was the analysis of this recondite influence of sex operating alike on the old priest and the girl.
In these scenes and rites a recondite doctrine of the physical and moral relations and destiny of man was shrouded, to be unveiled by degrees to their docile disciples by the Druidic mystagogues.
These were recondite institutions, sometimes wielded by the state, sometimes by a priesthood, sometimes by a ramifying private society.
If it had been my object to justify the processes themselves as means of investigation, there would have been no need to look far off, or make use of recondite or complicated instances.
It is generally regarded as something peculiarly recondite and mysterious.
For these, rather than the more obscure and recondite qualities on which they often depend, give that general character and aspect to a set of objects, which determine the groups into which they naturally fall.
And in the next place, we discover that not enumeration only, but a more recondite art, had a great share in the fabrication of these gigantic numbers of years.
They, as well as their Roman followers, seem largely to have illustrated their own feelings and experience by recondite allusions to the innumerable heroines of ancient mythology.
So too the contrast between the artistic andrecondite elegance of the lines (iii.
The poems of Propertius which celebrate his love for Cynthia could only be appreciated by the possessors of much recondite learning.
In turning to the second question, discussed in connexion with this Eclogue, the great amount and recondite character of Virgil's learning, especially of that derived from Alexandrine sources, must be kept in view.
And again he says, 'this story Virgil has dug out from the most recondite Greek literature(227).
In another place he speaks of those things, 'what he had introduced from the most recondite learning of the Greeks(226).
I have occasionally myself had evidence of his exact knowledge of very recondite portions of the Old Testament; but, as already intimated, he was always cautious and sparing in scriptural allusions or quotations.
It was in arguing before the court in banc, that Mr. Smith so much excelled; being equally lucid in stating and arranging his facts, logical in reasoning upon them, and ready in bringing to bear on them the most recondite doctrines of law.
These are all cases of asexual multiplication, and there are other instances, and still more extraordinary ones, in which this process takes place naturally, in a more hidden, a more recondite kind of way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recondite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
