Meanings of abstruse questions in English

He was fond of, and well qualified, to work out abstruse questions in arithmetic.

People were discussing these abstruse questions with the same enthusiasm as they discuss football today.

Is it to discuss abstruse questions of political economy?

There was an utter absence of the abstruse questions and complications which now beset the law.

He studied and worked out for himself very abstruse questions, on which he formed his own opinions, usually with great sagacity.

Thus there remain no profound problems of state, no abstruse questions as to authorities, no conflict as to what is the law.

In whatever meeting, scientific assembly or theological discussion He was found, He became the authority of explanation upon intricate and abstruse questions presented.

For Abraham Lincoln dealt with abstruse questions in language so limpid that many a farmer, dulled by toil, heard and understood and marvelled.

He seemed equally at home in the most abstruse questions of theology and metaphysics, and in the more practical matters of mackerel-fishing, corn-growing, and cattle-raising.

His Provinciales (1656) rendered abstruse questions of theology more or less intelligible, and invited the general public to pronounce an opinion on them.