abstruse
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The abstrusest elements of the common law are impressed into a disciplined service.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark
I have devoted myself to abstrusest science, have held commune with the stars, and have wrested the most hidden secrets from Nature—but that is all.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
Yet so subtle and forceful had been the mystic influence of the ocean on the primitive mind that it declares itself as a working element in their abstrusest speculations.
From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward
Probably the abstrusest study; and the most intense, going on in the world at that epoch.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Carlyle, Thomas
They were invited to a participation of the most obscure theories, and the abstrusest problems.
From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William
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