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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
arcane /ɑːˈkeɪn/

▶adjective understood by few; mysterious.

– derivatives
arcanely adverb.

– origin C16: from L. arcanus, from arcere ‘to shut up’, from arca ‘chest’.

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