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発音

• (General American) IPA: /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

   arcane knowledge

   The professor’s lecture was full of arcane references.

   The manuscript contained arcane symbols no one could decipher.

   He had an arcane knowledge of ancient 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 (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.

   an arcane law

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Further reading

• “arcane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “arcane”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “arcane”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• carane

形容詞

arcāne

1. vocative masculine singular of arcānus

アナグラム

• ancrae