recondite

• Nature engenders the gravity of bodies by a process so recondite, so completely beyond the reach of our senses and the ordinary resources of human intelligence, that the philosophers of antiquity, who supposed that they could explain every thing mechanically according to the simple evolutions of atoms, excepted gravity from their speculations. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• It does not weary the reader with critical discursiveness, nor with attempts to search out high-flown meanings and recondite oracles in the plain 'yea and 'nay' of life. —  Elizabeth Fry
• Stop. I vow that the rest of this review will not seek impossibly and involuntarily to emulate the ornate, recondite, witty, yet altogether engrossing and captivating style that Davidson employs in these pages. —  Asimov'sSF,September2007
• And that those philologists who had represented it as an agglutinated mass , and capable of the most recondite, pronominal, and tensal meanings, exceeding those of Greece and Rome, had no clear conceptions of what they were speaking of. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• "It served as a kind of recondite, East Village version of camp, classical Hollywood." —  Advocate.com Daily News

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