Difficult, obscure.
a recondite tractate on alchemy
Hidden or removed from view.
The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.
A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.
A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.
To conceal, cover up, hide.
Tendons: recondited, and hidde in their Muscle, as if they were in a purse imposed.
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Here we have an uncommon acquaintance with the conditions of society in the mass, which, perhaps, some of our recondites would hardly be disposed to expect in the case of a man of a character so eminent and philosophical as [Dugald] Stewart, and addicted to studies removing him so far from the sphere of common mortals.