aural (ara)

[L., a breeze, a breath of air, the air, Gr. αύρα, air in motion, a breeze, aura He [Ro etti] appreciated to a generous extent the poetry of present younger writers, but failed to see in nine-tenths of it any of that originality and individual aura that characterize work that will stand the stre of time. W. Sharp, D. G. Ro etti, p. 35. The personal aura which surrounded him [S. Bowles] in social intercourse was nowhere more potent than with his young men in the office. Charles G. Whiting , in Merriam's Life of Bowles, II. 69. mosphere around it. Also called electric atmosphere.Epileptic aura (aura epileptic a), primarily, a sensation, as of a current of air rising from some part of the body to the head, preceding an attack of epilepsy; in a more general sense any disturbance of consciousne or local motor symptoms immediately preceding an epileptic spasm. - Hysteric aura, a similar sensation preceding an attack of hysteria. The