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arcane

[ US /ˌɑɹˈkeɪn/ ]
[ UK /ɑːkˈe‍ɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
    the arcane science of dowsing

How To Use arcane In A Sentence

  • Perhaps I've been corrupted by Photoshop, but regardless, the GIMP just feels unusably arcane and clunky. December 29th, 2007
  • He was the only person who understood all the arcane details of the agreement.
  • In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
  • Coffee, cotton, peanuts, mangoes, citrus fruits, and sugarcane are other important crops.
  • Fate was - in the past - supposed to be the supreme delver into the arcane and the mysterious energies of the universe.
  • When you hear the term hacking, or hackathon, the first image that probably comes to mind is a handful of programmers staying up all night long, fueled by Mountain Dew and Twinkies, hacking away on laptops at arcane code. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The quality of legal argument and analysis in American courts, in particular state supreme courts, is often quite poor on issues of private law that the readers of this blog are likely to think arcane or technical. Balkinization
  • We had no idea that this arcane "mother of all crimes" - ignored since World War II - would ever again seize public attention as it has recently, because of the conduct of John Fonda
  • They rotate their crops, thereby helping the soil to recover from centuries of monoculture under sugarcane.
  • In many parts of the globe disputes over history are often not arcane or academic disagreements.
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