{"id":16049,"date":"2016-06-12T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=16049"},"modified":"2016-06-12T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:30:11","slug":"english-what-does-arcane-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-arcane-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  what does arcane mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor brings up a definition he&#8217;s long wondered about.<\/h1>\n<p>The word <i>arcane<\/i> seems rarely used nowadays, but I&#8217;ve always thought it a great word.  When I encountered it yesterday, I looked it up:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:125%\">arcane: shrouded in mystery; nebulous by reason of complexity<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A text written in an ancient language, for instance, might be described as <i>arcane<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al.  <u>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/u>.  Don Mills:<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;  Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor brings up a definition he&#8217;s long wondered about. The word arcane seems rarely used &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-arcane-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  what does arcane mean?<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16060,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions\/16060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}