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