acroamatic
acroamatic adjective: of or pertaining to hearing.
Adjective
acroamatic (comparative more acroamatic, superlative most acroamatic)
- Of or pertaining to hearing.
- Prate they not cataracts of insensible noise, / That with obstreperous cadence cracks the organs / Acroamatick, till the deaf auditor / Admires the words he heares not?1632, Thomas Randolph, The Jealous Lovers, Cambridge, page 59
- I should prefer, therefore, to call the former acroamatic, or audible (discursive) proofs, because they can be carried out by words only (the object in thought), rather than demonstrations, which, as the very term implies, depend on the intuition of the object.1922, F. Max Müller, transl., Critique of Pure Reason, translation of Kritik der reinen Vernunft by Immanuel Kant, page 590
- Esoteric, abstruse; (in particular) taught orally to select students and not disseminated.
- How to begin such warfare against sovereign religion in times ruled by the very zealots against whom one must fight? How else but covertly, enigmatically, in the acroamatic manner practiced so beautifully in Holy War?1993, Laurence Lampert, Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche, →ISBN, page 68
- Repeatedly in the Gospels Jesus takes his disciples aside to offer them acroamatic teachings not intended for the mass of listeners or to explain a secret meaning to some parable with which he has entertained the larger crowd.1995, Philip L. Culbertson, A Word Fitly Spoken: Context, Transmission, and Adoption of the Parables of Jesus, →ISBN, page 38
- Based on lectures or exposition by monologue.
- Coordinate term: erotematic
- Up to that time the “acroamatic” method had been used in which the catechist gave a lecture, and the children were only listeners (ἀκροᾶσθαι).1959, Josef Andreas Jungmann, Handing on the Faith: A Manual of Catechetics, page 28
acroamatic meaning in Urdu
acroamatic in Urdu
- زبانی مطلع کیا ہوا, مخفی, پوشیدہ, زبانی اطلاع
Examples of acroamatic in a sentence
- The idea that the first thought, as an internal event, is always also dialogical, that is, possesses a communicative quality in itself, is connected to its acroamatic origin.2009, Jürgen Trabant, “Herder and Language”, in Hans Adler, Wulf Köpke, editors, A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder...
- [Questions’] employment here does not mark a shift from the acroamatic (lecture-based) to the erotematic (interrogatory) method, for the answers are not known.2015, Nils F. Schott, "A Mother to All" in Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World, p. 108, n. 45
Forms of acroamatic
| comparative | more acroamatic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most acroamatic |
| alternative form (obsolete) | acroamatick |
Origin of acroamatic
Borrowed from Latin acroamaticus, acroaticus (“esoteric”), at first chiefly in reference to the “esoteric” and originally oral teachings of Aristotle, from Ancient Greek ἀκροαματικός (akroamatikós, “for hearing only; esoteric”), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai, “to listen”).
Words formed from acroamatic
Questions about acroamatic
- What does acroamatic mean?
- Acroamatic means of or pertaining to hearing.
- What is acroamatic in Urdu?
- Acroamatic in Urdu is زبانی مطلع کیا ہوا, مخفی, پوشیدہ. See Acroamatic meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use acroamatic in a sentence?
- The idea that the first thought, as an internal event, is always also dialogical, that is, possesses a communicative quality in itself, is connected to its acroamatic origin.
- What part of speech is acroamatic?
- Acroamatic is an adjective.
Words near acroamatic in the dictionary
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