Modifies a noun

• subject: His accompanying text may not answer every question on this recondite subject.

• sense: I believe that everybody must regard these as figures under which a recondite sense is concealed " .

• fact: Ian McEwan's extensive research into his subject failed to uncover these recondite facts.

• source: Paris is a prodigiously researched narrative, studded with gems of testimony from a host of recondite sources.