arcane
UK /ɑɹˈkeɪn/ US /ɑɹˈkeɪn/
adj 4
Definitions
adj
1
Understood by only a few.
arcane rituals
arcane knowledge
2
Obscure, mysterious.
arcane origins
arcane details
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
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