arcane
mysterious (secret knowledge)
TRANSLATION
arcane = geheimnisvoll, verborgen, rätselhaft --- GOOGLE INDEX arcane: approximately 5,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Court hears ARCANE hunting debate
(BBC - News Headline)
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an ARCANE priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
- American scientist Stephen Jay Gould
(BBC - News Headline)
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an ARCANE priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
- American scientist Stephen Jay Gould
Did you
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arcane
adjective
- mysterious and known only by a few people
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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England has its share of arcane folklore and the story of the Black Dog Inn near Uplyme in Devon is just one of many.
In a farmhouse near Lyme Regis in the 18th century, the ghost of a black dog began to appear almost every night while the owner of the house sat next to the fireplace. After much teasing from his neighbours about the phantom dog, he came home drunk one day, grabbed a poker and chased the dog into the attic.
The dog disappeared through the attic ceiling and the framer lunged at it with the poker. The poker went straight through the roof and an old fashioned box fell down from its hiding hole.
The box held a treasure of golden coins dating from the reign of Charles I. The farmer used the coins to purchase a house nearby, which he converted into a pub, naming it the Black Dog after the phantom hound.
Afterwards the dog never appeared in the house, but haunted the lane by the farm at midnight, which is referred to as Dog Lane out of respect for the legend.
Etymology
Arcane is from the Latin arcānus, meaning "secret, hidden" and from arcēre, to "shut up, keep safe."
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SYNONYMS
enigmatic, mysterious, obscure, strange, unknown
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Data encryption is an important but highly arcane branch of computer science."
adjective
- mysterious and known only by a few people
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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England has its share of arcane folklore and the story of the Black Dog Inn near Uplyme in Devon is just one of many.
In a farmhouse near Lyme Regis in the 18th century, the ghost of a black dog began to appear almost every night while the owner of the house sat next to the fireplace. After much teasing from his neighbours about the phantom dog, he came home drunk one day, grabbed a poker and chased the dog into the attic.
The dog disappeared through the attic ceiling and the framer lunged at it with the poker. The poker went straight through the roof and an old fashioned box fell down from its hiding hole.
The box held a treasure of golden coins dating from the reign of Charles I. The farmer used the coins to purchase a house nearby, which he converted into a pub, naming it the Black Dog after the phantom hound.
Afterwards the dog never appeared in the house, but haunted the lane by the farm at midnight, which is referred to as Dog Lane out of respect for the legend.
Etymology
Arcane is from the Latin arcānus, meaning "secret, hidden" and from arcēre, to "shut up, keep safe."
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SYNONYMS
enigmatic, mysterious, obscure, strange, unknown
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Data encryption is an important but highly arcane branch of computer science."
