Erudite vs Arcane - What's the difference?
erudite | arcane |
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
* 1850 , , Ch. XII:
* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
* 2006 , Jeff Israely, "
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 adjectives the difference between erudite and arcane
is that erudite is while arcane is understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.erudite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
Synonyms
* See alsoarcane
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.