05Sep September 5, 2006 – Arcane

Arcane \ar-KAYN\, adjective:
Understood or known by only a few.

Under Indonesia’s arcane system of land tenure, disputes between local residents, and between locals and developers, are commonplace.
— “Not Fair.”, TheEconomist, July 26, 1997

While addressing a problem in the arcane field of mathematical logic, he imagined a machine that could mimic human reasoning.
— Paul Gray, “Alan Turing”, Time Pacific, March 29, 1999

Practitioners of this arcane art combine highly abstract mathematical deduction with some of the basic behavioral assumptions of micro-economics to produce theories of the behavior of voters, of representative assemblies, of bureaucracies, and even of courts.
— Jerry L. Mashaw, Greed, Chaos, and Governance

Arcane comes from Latin arcanus, “shut, closed, secret,” from arca, “chest, box.”

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