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Webster 1913 Edition
Incondite
In′con-dite
(?; 277)
, Adj.
Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular.
“Carol incondite rhymes.” J. Philips.
Webster 1828 Edition
Incondite
INCON'DITE
,Adj.
Rude; unpolished; irregular. [Little used.]
Definition 2024
incondite
incondite
English
Adjective
incondite
- Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Chapter 17
- I wish I might digress and tell you more ... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Chapter 17
- Rough, unrefined.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.4:
- the second [symptom] is falso cogitata loqui, to talk to themselves, or to use inarticulate, incondite voices, speeches, obsolete gestures […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.4:
Latin
Adjective
incondite
- vocative masculine singular of inconditus
References
- incondite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- incondite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “incondite”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.