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abstruse, a.|æbˈstruːs|
Also 6–7 abstruce.
[ad. L. abstrūs-us thrust away, concealed, pa. pple. of abstrūd-ĕre: see prec. Mentioned by P. Heylin as an ‘uncouth and unusual word’ in 1656.]
†1. Concealed, hidden, secret. Obs.
1602Thynne Chaucer (1865) 107 The Abstruse skill, the artificiall veine; By true Annalogie I ryhtly find. 1620Shelton Don Quixote (1746) II. iv. xv. 194 Hidden in the most abstruse dungeons of Barbary. 1667Milton P.L. v. 712 The eternal eye, whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. 1762B. Stillingfleet Linn. Or. in Misc. Tracts 9 That the abstruse forces of the elements, which otherwise would escape our senses, may be made manifest.
2. Remote from apprehension or conception; difficult, recondite.
1599Thynne Animadv. (1865) 36 That abstruce scyence whiche Chaucer knewe full well. 1671Milton Samson 1064 Be less abstruse, my riddling days are past. 1704Swift Tale of a Tub Wks. 1760 I. 13 Readers, who cannot enter into the abstruser parts of the discourse. 1751Watts Improv. Mind (1801) 107 Let not young students apply themselves to search out deep, dark, and abstruse matters, far above their reach. 1848H. Miller First Impr. (1857) xix. 340 Men who had wrought their way..into some of the abstrusest questions of the schools. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) V. ix. viii. 380 But these were solitary abstruse thinkers or minds which formed a close esoteric school. |