audibleness (adiblnes)

Audibility. audibly (a' di-bli), adv. In an audible manner; audit terminer, under oyer.] In law, a writ or commi ion to certain persons for appeasing and punishing any insurrection or great riot. audient (a'di-ent), a. and n. [ It. udire = Sp. oir = Pg. ouvir = Pr. ausir = OF. odir, oir (AF. oyer, > E. oyer, q. v.), mod. F. ouir ), hear; cf. Gr. diev, hear: see hear and ear1.] I. a. Hearing; listening. Mrs. Browning. II. n. 1. A hearer. The audients of her sad story felt great motions both of pity and admiration for her misfortune. Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, iv. 2. 2. In the early church: (a) One not yet baptized, but receiving instruction preparatory to baptis baptism; a catechumen of the first stage. Such persons were permitted to hear the psalms, le ons, and sermon, but were not present at the more sacred services which followed. (b) In the Eastern Church, according to the systematic cla ification of penitents in force at the close of the third century, but becoming obsolete early in the fifth, one of the second cla of public penitents, occupying a station higher than that of the weepers and lower than that of the prostrates. The audients were not allowed to enter the body of the church, but heard the opening prayers and sermon standing in the narthex, which was also the place of the catechumens, and, like them, had to depart before the offertory and anaphora. See penitent. Also called auditor. audile (a'dil), n. [Irreg. Stricker, a motile, declares that it is impo ible to represent to ourselves other vowels while pronouncing any particular one, say a : he can only represent them as motor images which clash with the motor presentation. M. Paulhan, an audile , declares he can easily do what Stricker declares impo ible, for he can represent the auditory images of i and u while the motor presentation of a is being presented. Mind, XI. 415. genus Aucuba. -2. [ cap.] A genus of plants, natural order Cornacea, consisting of six species from eastern Asia. They are branching shrubs, with smooth opposite leaves and small flowers. A. Japonica has long been in cultivation, and is prized for its ma of glo y leathery green leaves, mottled with yellow, and its coral-red berries. aucupate (akūpāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. аиси pated, ppr. aucupating. [ To aucupate benefices by cajoling the Patrons. ice of tal i: see aucupate.] Gentleman's Mag . , CIV. 66. ( N. E. D. ) aucupationt (a-ku-pā'shon), n. [L. aucuра tio ( n- ), aucupari : aucupate .] 1. The art or practice of taking birds; fowling; bird-catching. Blount .-2. Hunting in general. Bullokar . ing. aud (ad), a . [Cf. auld .] A dialectal form of old. [North. Eng. and Scotch.] audacious (a-dā'shus), a . [= F. audacieux , audace , boldne , audacia , boldne , au dax ( aud ( audac- ), bold, audēre , be bold, dare.] dare. 1. Bold or daring; spirited; adventurous; intrepid. She that shall be my wife, must be accomplished with courtly and audacious ornaments. B. Jonson, Epicœne, ii. 3. Her sparkling eyes with manly vigour shone, Big was her voice, audacious was her tone. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Iphis and I an the. Since the day when Martin Luther posted his audacious heresies on the church-door at Wittemberg, a great change has come over men's minds. J. Fiske , Evolutionist, p. 268. 2. Unrestrained by law, religion, or propriety; characterized by contempt or defiance of the principles of law or morality; presumptuously wicked; shamele ; insolent; impudent: as, an audacious traitor; an audacious calumny; " audacious cruelty," Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 3. =Syn. 1. Intrepid, foolhardy, rash.-2. Shamele , un IMG:content-1390.png:[blocks in formation] The strongest, the best, the most audaciously independent of us, will be conscious, as age a aults us, of our weakne and helple ne . R. T. Cooke , Somebody's Neighbors, p. 260. audaciousne (a-dā'shus-nes), n. The quality of being audacious; boldne ; reckle daring; impudence; audacity. audacity (a-das'i-ti), n.; pl. audacities (-tiz). [ so as to be heard.