auditor (adit or)

[ What, a play toward? I'll be an auditor ; An actor too, perhaps. Shak ., M. N. D., iii. 1. I was infinitely delighted with the station of a humble auditor in such conversations. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, iv. 10. 2. Same as audient, n., 2.-3. A person appointed and authorized to examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine parties and witne es, allow or reject charges, and state the result. It is usual with courts to refer accounts involved in litigation to auditors, in some jurisdictions called referees or com mi ioners, for adjustment, and their report, if received, is the basis of the judgment. Sometimes an auditor is a standing officer of political or corporate bodies. State or municipal auditors are persons appointed or elected to examine the public accounts as they accrue, or at such intervals as may be designated. In the United States government there are six auditors of the treasury. The first auditor has charge of the accounts of the civil service, customs, judiciary, public debt, etc.; the second, those of Indian affairs and some of those of the army; the third, those of the quartermaster-general, engineer corps, commi ary-general, war claims, etc.; the fourth, those of the navy; the fifth, those of the internal-revenue office, census, patent-office, and state department; and the sixth, those of the post-office department. 4. One of certain officers of high rank at the papal court: so called from their connection with busine treated of in audiences with the IMG:content-1393.png:[blocks in formation] [F.: au, at the (see au2 ); fond, At bottom; e entially. pope: as, auditor of the apostolic chamber; au fond (ō fôn). auditor of the pope; auditors of the Roman bottom: see fund .] rota (which see). - Auditor of the Court of Ses- sion, in Scotland, a crown officer to whom suits in which expenses are found due may be remitted in order that the costs may be taxed. - Auditors of the Exchequer. See commi ioners of audit , under audit . auditoria, n. Plural of auditorium . auditorial (a-di-toʻri-al), a. [Cf. LL. auditor i- alis , pertaining to a school ( auditorium ), ML. auditorial is scholastic us , an advocate; auditor , a hearer: see auditory .] 1. Auditory. Sir J. Stoddart. [Rare.] -2. Of or pertaining to an auditor of accounts, or to audits. auditorium (a-di-tō'ri-um), n.; pl. auditoriums , auditoria (-umz, -ä). [L., a court of justice, a hall of audience, a school, a embled hear- ers, in ML. also a reception-room in a monas- tery; neut. of LL. auditor i us , of or for hear- ing: see auditory , a.] 1. In a church, theater, public hall, or the like, the space allotted to the hearers or audience.-2. In monasteries, an apartment for receiving visitors; a parlor or reception-room. auditor.