But I hope this new Messenger from Heauen doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron to these rauishing (but impouerishing) studies, by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and diuine science [astronomy] shall at length be manifested.

Recondite, (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.

Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.

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.

...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.

[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. … A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.

Whether subsidence plunged the huge morass, / With vegetation, soil, and trees, en masse— / Or, if the flood had drown'd the boggy all, / As streaming torrents roar'd in surly bawl— / Let dons decide, on whom these points devolve; / Such recondites are truely hard to solve.

Such as those which being uniques cannot be perfected without new punches, and if they were made complete, it would be no more than oleum et operam, etc., because they are either out of use or the times afford better, as the Antique Hebrew (spec. 7); Leusden's Samaritan (spec. 27); 2-line Great Primer Hebrew (spec. 38); the Runic, Gothic, and other recondites, the matrices for which are incomplete or useless.

Here we have an uncommon acquaintance with the conditions of society in the mass, which, perhaps, some of our recondites would hardly be disposed to expect in the case of a man of a character so eminent and philosophical as [Dugald] Stewart, and addicted to studies removing him so far from the sphere of common mortals.

If the administrative economists should adopt the widespread practice of their pedagogue colleagues and express themselves, in major policy papers as elsewhere, in mathematical equations rather than words, administrative prerogative would be reinforced by recourse to the professional recondites. … This is a serious matter, since any obscurantism and any retreat from public accountability by the civil service cause distrust of people against their government, and of the legislative branch against the bureaucracy.

They are on middle ground now, that area of jazz which welcomes hardy perennials as well as mellowed recondites.

Tendons: recondited, and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed.

Theſe Species are conveyed to the Brain by the Optick Nerve, and are laid up in the Magazine of the Memory, otherways we ſhould not remember the Object any longer than it is in our Preference; and a remembring of thoſe Objects is nothing elſe but the Fancy's reviewing, or more properly the Soul of Man by the Fancy reviewing of theſe intentional Species, formerly received from the viſible Object unto the Organ of the Eye, and recondited into the Seat of the Memory.

To detail with perspicuity and elegance the facts which are recondited and preserved by others, is comparatively so easy a task, that a person of very limited experience might perform it with success; …

The explorer or conquistador wanders, and yet his wandering is not totally random, it is ramose because as he goes upstream, as he follows the waterway each confluence becomes the source of emergent meaning. Donne and crew travel along the ramose path, along the river which recondites the opposites – life and death.

… Gaṅgas at the instigation of the lord of the Raṭṭas, cut off the head of Maṅgi in battle, terrified Kṛṣṇa and his ally Saṅkila, and burnt their capital (name not recorded), which obviously recondites the eventual theme of Chālukya-Rāṣṭrakūṭa relationship during the reigns of both Amoghavarṣa I and Kṛṣṇa II.

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