Audience
Au″di‐ence (�), n. [F. audience, L. audientia, fr. audire to hear. See Audible, a.] 1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds.Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend.Mil...
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Audient
Au″di‐ent (�), a. [L. audiens, p. pr. of audire. See Audible, a.] Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. Mrs. Browning.
Audient (2)
Au″di‐ent, n. A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church. Shelton.
Audile
Au″dile (?), n. [L. audire to hear.] (Psychol.) One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.
Audiometer
Au′di‐om″e‐ter (�), n. [L. audire to hear + -meter.] (Acous.) An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.
Audiphone
Au″di‐phone (�), n. [L. audire to hear + Gr. � sound.] An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or le...
Audit
Au″dit (�), n. [L. auditus a hearing, fr. audire. See Audible, a.] 1. An audience; a hearing.He appeals to a high audit.Milton.2. An examination in general; a judicial examinati...
Audit (2)
Au″dit (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Audited; p. pr. & vb. n.Auditing.] To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who ha...
Audit (3)
Au″dit, v. i. To settle or adjust an account.Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed.Arbuthnot.
Audita querela
‖Au‐di″ta que‐re″la (�). (Law) A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not ha...
Audition
Au‐di″tion (�), n. [L. auditio.] The act of hearing or listening; hearing.Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing.Dunglison.
Auditive
Au″di‐tive (�), a. [Cf. F. auditif.] Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. Cotgrave.
Auditor
Au″di‐tor (�), n. [L. auditor, fr. audire. See Audible, a.] 1. A hearer or listener. Macaulay.2. A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, co...
Auditorial
Au′di‐to″ri‐al (�), a. Auditory.
Auditorium
Au′di‐to″ri‐um (�), n. [L. See Auditory, n.] The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.☞ In ancient churches the auditorium was the nave,...
Auditorship
Au″di‐tor‐ship (�), n. The office or function of auditor.
Auditory
Au″di‐to‐ry (�), a. [L. auditorius.] Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.Auditory canal(Anat.), the tube from the ...
Auditory (2)
Au″di‐to‐ry, n. [L. auditorium.] 1. An assembly of hearers; an audience.2. An auditorium. Udall.
Auditress
Au″di‐tress (�), n. A female hearer. Milton.
Auditual
Au‐dit″u‐al (�), a. Auditory. Coleridge.
Auf
Auf (a̤f), n. [OE. auph, aulf, fr. Icel. ālfr elf. See Elf.] [Also spelt oaf, ouphe.] A changeling or elf child, — that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a s...
Aufklärung
‖Auf″klä‐rung (?), n. A philosophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, an...
Augean
Au‐ge″an (�), a. 1. (Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a s...
Auger
Au″ger (�), n. [OE. augoure, nauger, AS. nafegār, fr. nafu, nafa, nave of a wheel + gār spear, and therefore meaning properly and originally a nave-bore. See Nave (of a wheel) a...
Auget
‖Au‐get″ (�), n. [F., dim. of auge trough, fr. L. alveus hollow, fr. alvus belly.] (Mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slo...
Aught
{ Aught (�), Aucht } (�), n. [AS. �ht, fr. āgan to own, p. p. āhte.] Property; possession. Sir W. Scott.
Aught (2)
Aught (�), n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. āwiht, ā ever + wiht. √136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight.] Anything; any part. [Also written ought.]There failed not aught of any go...