arcaneとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈkeɪn/
• 韻: -eɪn

形容詞

arcane (comparative more arcane, superlative most arcane)

1. Understood by only a few.

   Synonym: esoteric

   Antonym: mundane

   arcane rituals

2. (by extension) Obscure, mysterious.

   Synonyms: enigmatic, esoteric, recondite, clandestine

   arcane origins

   arcane details

3. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN

     A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.

4. Extremely old (i.e interpretation または knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.

   An arcane law

関連する語

Further reading

• arcane in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arcane in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• arcane at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• carane

Latin

形容詞

arcāne

1. vocative masculine singular of arcānus