Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Badly constructed; crude.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ill constructed; unpolished; rude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Badly-arranged, ill-composed,
disorderly (especially of artistic works). - adjective Rough,
unrefined .
Etymologies
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Examples
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* Timide conveniunt in ecclesiam: dicitis enim, quoniam incondite convenimus et simul convenimus et complures concurrimus in ecclesiam, quaerimur a nationibus et timemus, ne turbentur nationes: [1766] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Ah, Lycinus, 'tis but a fledgeling of mine; 'tis all incondite.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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I beg your pardon, my dear fellow; but conduit, incondite, you know.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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You mistake me; I said nothing of conduits; you are behind the times; incondite -- 'tis the word we use now when a thing lacks the finishing touches.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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It was a wonderful London which within the same twenty years could harbour three men, like Blake, Coleridge and Shelley, in whom the incondite spirit which we call genius dwelt so near the surface of conscious being, and had such freedom to range.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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But indeed his actual Speeches, I apprehend, were not nearly so ineloquent, incondite, as they look.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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'Frederick,' an attempt (still in the way of youth - 16 rather than 60!) to vanquish by sheer force the immense masses of incondite or semi-condite rubbish which had accumulated on 'Frederick,' that is, to let the Printer straightway drive me through it!
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Plenty of incondite stuff accordingly there was; new, and in a strangely new dialect and tone; the audience intelligent, partly fashionable, was very good to me, and seemed, in spite of the jumbled state of things, to feel it entertaining, even interesting.
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We have often regretted that Sir Walter Scott, who, after all, has not done full justice to Bruce in that very unequal and incondite poem 'The
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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We have often regretted that Sir Walter Scott, who, after all, has not done full justice to Bruce in that very unequal and incondite poem 'The
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845
whichbe commented on the word incondite
Not well put together; poorly constructed. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008
qms commented on the word incondite
The flourish too much was the bonnet;
Mugs curses the moment he donned it.
The cops on the hunt
Could see through his stunt;
His costume was sadly incondite.
December 3, 2018