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incondite

[ in-kon-dit, -dahyt ]

adjective

  1. ill-constructed; unpolished:

    incondite prose.



incondite

/ -daɪt; ɪnˈkɒndɪt /

adjective

  1. poorly constructed or composed
  2. rough or crude
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • inˈconditely, adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of incondite1

First recorded in 1530–40; from Latin inconditus, equivalent to in- “un-” + conditus, past participle of condere “to put in, restore” ( con- “with, together” + -di- “to put, set” + -tus past participle suffix); in- 3, con-
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Word History and Origins

Origin of incondite1

C17: from Latin inconditus, from in- 1+ conditus, from condere to put together
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Example Sentences

‘I had rather hear my mother’s cat mew, or a wheel grate on the axletree, than one of these same metre-ballad-mongers’ chaunt his incondite, retrograde lays, without rhyme and without reason.

Incondite, in-kon′dīt, adj. not well put together, irregular, unfinished.

The hut was, however, distinguished from its fellow hovels, by a sashed window on one side of the door, a most incondite picture of a bottle and glass on the other, and a stone lintel, bearing, in characters of no modern shape, the following inscription:— 16..W.M.T.

Willymot had translated Lord Bacon’s “Essays” from the Latin, and thus substituted his own loose incondite sentences, which he deemed “more fashionable language,” for the brilliancy or the energy of Lord Bacon’s native vein.

God must have tipped him off ... the incondite ravings of a mischief maker.

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incondensablein condition