aenigmatic

comparative more aenigmatic · superlative most aenigmatic

1. archaicArchaic spelling of enigmatic.

   This species and its close allies are certainly aenigmatic.

   2003, The Orchid Digest, Volumes 67–68, Orchid Digest Corporation, page 92

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   Certainly, his tale of Calogrenant is an aenigmalogue – a story that presented such an aenigmatic surface to its audience that even if they guessed the author's meaning, they could never be absolutely certain of it.

   1984, The Craft of Fiction: Essays in Medieval Poetics, Solaris Press, page 314

   In Pearl, "cortaysye" provides an adequate but aenigmatic metaphor for the ineffable precisely because the term itself denotes so elusive a concept.

   1991, Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the Pearl-Poet, Whitston, page 87