irrecondite

comparative more irrecondite · superlative most irrecondite

1. Not recondite; well-known.

   ..than institutions of another class were found wanting: — a something that might fill up the space between the cloistered scholar and the irrecondite citizen ; the...

   1834, John Mason Good, Nature of the Animate World, page 336

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   […] Socrates […] was rather a moral and political, than a physical or metaphysical philosopher; and hence his creed was either deficient upon the subject of cosmology, or too simple and irrecondite to satisfy the curiosity of his pupils.

   1805, John Mason Good, “Appendix”, in Titus Lucretius Carus, translated by John Mason Good, The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page cvi

   Let me see nothing too trim, nothing too irrecondite. Equal solicitude is not to be exerted on all ideas alike: some are brought into the fullness of light, some are […]

   1840, Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, page 236