Recondite vs Condition - What's the difference?
recondite | condition |
(of areas of study and literature) Difficult, obscure; particularly:
# Abstruse, profound, difficult to grasp
#* 1619 , John Bainbridge, Astronomicall description of the late comet , 42
#* ante'' 1894 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), ''Amateur Emigrant (1895), 40
# Esoteric, little known; secret
#* 1644 , John Bulwer, Chirologia: or The naturall language of the hand. Whereunto is added Chironomic or the Art of manuall rhetoricke , 137
#* 1722 , F. Lee, Epistolary Discourses , 41
#* 1817 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Biographia Literaria , I. iii. 65
#* 1849 , (Herman Melville), Mardi: and A Voyage Thither , II. §67
#* 1921 , (Joseph Conrad), Secret Agent'', Preface in ''Works , VIII. page xvii
#* 1948 , (William Somerset Maugham), Catalina , xv. 83
#* 1992 Autumn, American Scholar , 576/1
#* 2004 , Alexander McCall Smith, Sunday Philosophy Club , xxi. 224
# (of writers) Deliberately obscure; employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references
#* 1788 , Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings , II. v. i. 109
#* 1817 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Biographia literaria; or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions , II. xxii. 172
#* 2004 Autumn, American Scholar , 129
# (of scholars) Learnèd]], having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric [[minutiæ
#* 1836 , (Edward Bulwer-Lytton), "Sir Thomas Browne" in The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton (1841),
#* 1891 , George T. Ferris, The Great German Composers
#* 1998 , , Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life ,
Hidden or removed from view
* 1649 , John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia , ii. ii. 108
* 1796 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Letters , I. 209
* 1823 , (Charles Lamb), Old Benchers in Elia , 190
* 1825 , Thomas Say, Say's Entomol. , Glossary, 28
* 1857 , (Charles Dickens), Little Dorrit , §21
* 1887 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), "The Canoe Speaks" in Underwoods
* 2002 , Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante , 253
Shy, avoiding notice (particularly human notice)
* 1835 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 125, 361
to hide, cover up, conceal
* 1578 , John Banister, The History of Man , i. f. 32
A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
A requirement, term or requisite.
(legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
The health status of a medical patient.
The state or quality.
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A particular state of being.
(obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
To subject to the process of acclimation.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
To place conditions or limitations upon.
* Tennyson
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
* Sir W. Hamilton
As verbs the difference between recondite and condition
is that recondite is to hide, cover up, conceal while condition is to subject to the process of acclimation.As an adjective recondite
is (of areas of study and literature) difficult, obscure; particularly:.As a noun condition is
a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses the phrase can either be true or false.recondite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I hope this new Messenger from Heauen]] doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron... by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and [[divine, diuine science shall at length be manifested.
- Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects.
- There was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit , a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large possession of Divine and Humane]] [[laws, Lawes.
- The Apostle Paul had taken up many things out of these Recondite and Apocryphal Writings.
- [Of Southey:] I look in vain for any writer who has conveyed so much information, from so many and such recondite sources.
- But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore.
- Suggestions for certain personages... came from various sources which... some reader may have recognized. They are not very recondite .
- He was never at a loss for a recondite allusion.
- It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany... working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time.
- While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky [sic] nosers spoke the language of everyday life.
- They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.
- In the play of fancy, , to my feelings, is not always graceful and sometimes recondite .
- The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.
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- It is delightful to see this recondite scholar — this contemplative and refining dreamer — in the centre of his happy nor unworthy household.
- [Of
] : Our musician rapidly became known far and wide throughout the musical centres of Germany as a learned and recondite composer.
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- Cousin's lectures take their initial cue from the weighty treatises of a remote, recondite thinker named (Immanuel Kant).
- The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.
- My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.
- The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.
- Recondite , (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.
- How such a man should suppose himself unwell without reason, you may think strange. But I have found nothing the matter with him. He may have some deep-seated recondite complaint. I can't say. I only say, that at present I have not found it out.
- ...following the recondite brook,
- Sudden upon this scene I look,
- And light with unfamiliar face
- On chaste Diana's bathing-place
- Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream.
- Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.
Verb
(recondit)- Tendons: recondited , and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed. "recondite, adj." and "v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2009. *Anagrams
* ----condition
English
Noun
(en noun)- A man of his condition has no place to make request.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "condition")Synonyms
* (the health or state of something) fettleDerived terms
* conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient conditionVerb
(en verb)- I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
- Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.
- It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
- (McElrath)
- to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
- To think of a thing is to condition .
