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adjective

Abstruse adj.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. (Obs.) "The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts."

Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. "Profound and abstruse topics."

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Etymology of 'Abstruse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abstruse" Quotes from Famous Books

... simply on realising the objects of his belief as facts. His allegories of "Poverty," "Chastity," and "Obedience," at Assisi, are as beautiful and powerfully felt as they are carefully constructed. Yet they conceal no abstruse spiritual meaning, but are plainly painted "for the poor laity of love to read." The artist poet who coloured the virginal form of Poverty, with the briars beneath her feet and the roses blooming round her forehead, proved by his well-known ...

— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... neither a commonplace nor a dramatic situation, but chooses some difficult and out-of-the-way theme, and clears it up with his keen, subtle, impressionistic art. A Passionate Pilgrim, The Madonna of the Future, and The Lesson of the Master are short stories that show his abstruse, unusual subject matter ...

— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck

... slightly on his heels and considering Duane with the inquiring solemnity of one who is in process of grasping and digesting an abstruse proposition. ...

— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... by Josiah Royce illustrates how clearly a most abstruse topic can be handled by a man ...

— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

... overloading of children with verbal statements of abstruse doctrines, whether of religion or of science. Much less would I turn them into parrots, to repeat phrases to which they attach no meaning at all. But when it is demanded, on the other hand, that they shall learn nothing but what they understand, I demur. I ask ...

— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart

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