Arts vs Arcane - What's the difference?
arts | arcane |
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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
As a noun arts
is plural of lang=en.As an adjective arcane is
understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.arts
English
Noun
(head)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}
Derived terms
* arts and crafts * fine arts * martial artsAnagrams
* * * * ----arcane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane' knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.