incondite

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I beg your pardon, my dear fellow; but conduit, incondite, you know.

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  1. adjective Badly constructed; crude.

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  • His was the heart of a man who could pray But indeed his actual Speeches, I apprehend, were not nearly so ineloquent, incondite, as they look. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
  • There is among them a hymn_, of which the metre is so incondite, and the phraseology so ancient, that the grammarians have attributed it to Linus. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • He was ever found on the right side; helpful to it, not obstructive of it, in all he attempted or performed Weak health; a faculty indeed brilliant, clear, prompt, not deficient in depth either, or in any kind of active valour, but wanting the stern energy that could long endure to continue in the deep, in the chaotic, new, and painfully incondite--this marked out for him his limits; which, perhaps with regrets enough, his natural veracity and practicality would lead him quietly to admit and stand by. —  On the Choice of Books
  • Ah, Lycinus, 'tis but a fledgeling of mine; 'tis all incondite. —  Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
  • I beg your pardon, my dear fellow; but conduit, incondite, you know. —  Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
 

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  1. Latin inconditus : in-, not; see in-1 + conditus, past participle of condere, to put together; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin inconditus, not put together, not ordered, disordered, from in- privative + conditus, put together: see condite, condiment.
 

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/ɪnˈkɑndɪt/
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