English Dictionary

recondite

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/

名詞

稀用

(rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing. / (rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.

日本語の意味

隠れた、もしくは難解なもの・事柄 / （学者など）その分野において秘蔵の知識や極め細部に精通している人物

The museum curator kept the recondite in a locked cabinet, allowing only a few scholars to study its strange inscriptions.

博物館の学芸員はその謎めいた遺物を施錠された棚に保管し、わずかな研究者しかその奇妙な刻印を調べられないようにした。

意味（1）

(rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.

[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. … A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.

意味（2）

(rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.

Here we have an uncommon acquaintance with the conditions of society in the mass, which, perhaps, some of our recondites would hardly be disposed to expect in the case of a man of a character so eminent and philosophical as [Dugald] Stewart, and addicted to studies removing him so far from the sphere of common mortals.

recondites （ plural ）