Definition of Arcane

1. Adjective. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge. "The arcane science of dowsing"

Similar to: Esoteric

Definition of Arcane

1. a. Hidden; secret.

Definition of Arcane

1. Adjective. Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arcane

1. mysterious [adj] - See also: mysterious

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arcane

arc welding
arcade
arcade games
arcaded
arcadelike
arcader
arcaders
arcades
arcadia
arcadians
arcadias
arcading
arcadings
arcana
arcane (current term)
arcanely
arcanist
arcanists
arcanite
arcanum
arcanums
arcate
arcature
arcatures
arccos
arccosecant
arccosecants
arccoses
arccosh

Literary usage of Arcane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Wherefore they place Sphinxes before their temples, to signify, that their theology contained a certain arcane, and enigmatical wisdom in it. ..."

2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Sang then Manannan chant divine ; whose words arcane, (But hid the sense,) raught hardly unto men's ears. Beyond wan circuit of sea-waves, which seemed Then ..."

3. A New Light of Mysticism: Azoth; Or, The Star in the East by Arthur Edward Waite (1893)
"... have led to the extension of our researches into the fields of experimental psychology; so have we come to discover in mystic doctrine a certain arcane ..."

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