auditorship (adit or ship)

The office of auditory (a'di-to-ri), a. [ or for hearing, pp. audit us, hear: see audient.] 1. Pertaining to hearing or to the sense or organs of hear ing: as, the auditory nerve.-2. Pertaining to an auditorium; designed for an audience: as, tory artery, a branch of the basilar artery which ac the auditory part of a theater. [Rare.]-Audi companies the auditory nerve and supplies the labyrinth of the ear. - Auditory canal, the meatus auditor i us extern us and intern us. See meatus, and cut under ear. Auditory crest, auditory hairs, auditory plate, in cephalopods. See extracts. The terminations of the auditory nerves either form the auditory plate , which is a thickened portion of the epithelium, from which the cells send hair-like proce es ( auditory hairs ) (Sepia); or an auditory crest , which generally takes a curved direction, and which is likewise covered by modified epithelium. Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 357. Cells bearing or developed into long auditory hairs , which are to be regarded as the peripheral end-organs of the vestibular branches of the auditory nerve. Encyc. Brit., VII. 592. Auditory duct (duct us cochlear is or duct us auditor i us), a applied to the interval between the membrana tectoria and the membrana basilar is of the human cochlea. Auditory nerve, the special nerve of hearing, which enters the ear-parts by the meatus auditor i us intern us, and is distributed to the membranous labyrinth. In Will is's enumeration it was known as the portio moll is of the seventh cranial nerve; now it is generally reckoned as the eighth cranial nerve. Also called the acoustic nerve. See cut under brain. - Auditory o icles. See o icle. - Auditory proce , or external auditory proce , the projecting border of the external auditory meatus to which the cartilage of the ear is attached. - Auditory vesicle, the vesicle formed in the embryo by the involution of the epiblast on either side of the head; the rudiment of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. - Internal auditory foramen. See foramen. auditory (a'di-to-ri), n.; pl. auditories (-riz). [ He had not the popular way of preaching, nor is in any measure fit for our plaine and vulgar auditorie , as his Evelyn , Diary, Mar. 5, 1673. predece or was. Having entered his court, he [Bacon] addre ed the splendid auditory in a grave and dignified speech. Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 2. A place for hearing or for the accommodation of hearers; an auditorium; specifically, in a church, the nave, in which the hearers or congregation are a embled. When Agrippa and Bernice entered into the auditory. Wyclif, Acts xxv. 23. 3t. A bench on which a judge sits to hear causes.-4. A lecture-room; a philosophical school. N. E. D. auditre (a'di-tres), n. A female hearer. [ Adam relating, she sole auditre . Milton , P. L., viii. 51.