incondite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconditus.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkɒndɪt/

Adjective

incondite

  1. 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.
  2. Rough, unrefined.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , I.iii.1.4:
      the second [symptom] is falso cogitata loqui, to talk to themselves, or to use inarticulate, incondite voices, speeches, obsolete gestures […].

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

incondite

  1. 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
  • incondite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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