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acroamatick

acroamatick is the obsolete spelling of acroamatic.

Meaning of acroamatic

Adjective

acroamatic (comparative more acroamatic, superlative most acroamatic)

  1. (archaic, rare) 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
  2. 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
  3. Based on lectures or exposition by monologue.
    • Coordinate term: erotematic

Forms of acroamatick

comparativemore acroamatick
superlativemost acroamatick

Questions about acroamatick

What is acroamatick the obsolete spelling of?
Acroamatick is the obsolete spelling of acroamatic.

Words near acroamatick in the dictionary

  1. acroama
  2. acroamata
  3. acroamatic
  4. acroamatical
  5. acroamatically
  6. acroamatick
  7. acroamatics
  8. acroanaesthesia
  9. acroanesthesia
  10. acroangiodermatitis
  11. acroarthritis

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