arcane
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ɑɹˈkeɪn/
arcane
- Understood by only a few.
- Synonyms: esoteric
- Antonyms: mundane
- arcane rituals
- (by extension) Obscure, mysterious.
- Synonyms: enigmatic, esoteric, recondite, clandestine
- arcane origins
- arcane details
- Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865
- 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.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865
- Extremely old (i.e interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
- An arcane law
- French: arcane
- German: geheim, geheimnisvoll, obskur
- Italian: arcano
- Portuguese: arcano
- Russian: та́йный
- Spanish: arcano, secreto, misterioso
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