arcane vs known

arcane

adj
  • Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand. 

  • Obscure, mysterious. 

  • Understood by only a few. 

  • Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant. 

known

adj
  • Accepted, familiar, researched. 

  • Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned. 

noun
  • Any fact or situation which is known or familiar. 

  • A constant or variable the value of which is already determined. 

How often have the words arcane and known occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )