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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconditus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
incondite
- Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).
1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. , London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page v:I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 17, in Lolita:I wish I might digress and tell you more ... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already.
- Rough, unrefined.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Education, custome, continuance of time, condition, mixt with other diseases, by fits, inclination, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 4, page 172:he ſecond is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures, […].
Anagrams
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
- incondite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.