arcane

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more arcane

Superlative

most arcane

1.
Understood by only a few.
arcane rituals
arcane knowledge
The professor’s lecture was full of arcane references.
The manuscript contained arcane symbols no one could decipher.
He had an arcane knowledge of ancient rituals.
Đồng nghĩa: esoteric
2.
(broadly)(by extension) Obscure, mysterious.
arcane origins
arcane details
Đồng nghĩa: enigmatic, esoteric, recondite, clandestine
3.
Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN 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.
4.
Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
an arcane law

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

esotericenigmatic recondite clandestine

Trái nghĩa

Cùng gốc / liên quan

arcanistarcanityarcanologysuperarcanearcanelyarcanenessarcanaarculus

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Nguồn gốc từ

Borrowed from Latin arcānus (hidden, secret), from arceō (to shut up, enclose); cognate with arca.