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audient

Syllables: au·di·ent/ˈɔː.dɪ.ənt/

audient adjective: listening, paying attention.

Adjective

audient (not comparable)

  1. Listening, paying attention.
    • The prosochist is that person whom the noun itself designates by means of an audient intonation, an audient indication, or an audient comma, as the paricular individual to whose notice the par-e-theme presents the different objects mntioned, or implied, in the sentence; as, Master, I have brought...1849, James Brown, An English Grammar, in Three Books. […], book II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by John T. Lange, […], →OCLC, part II, lesson II, section 2 (The Pronoun Denomination), footnote...
    • And, as we sate, we felt the old earth spin, / And all the starry turbulence of worlds / Swing round us in their audient circles, till / If that same golden moon were overhead / Or if beneath our feet, we did not know.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 398
    Synonyms:
    attentive, reckful

Noun

audient (plural audients)

  1. (uncommon) A hearer; a member of an audience.
    • The audients of her ſad ſtorie, felt great motions both of pitie and admiration for her miſfortunes: […]1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Which Treates of the Discretion of the Beautifull Dorotea, and the Artificiall Manner Used to Disswade the Amorous Knight from Continuing His Penance: And How He...
    • Let me not ſee you act now, / In your Scholaſticke way, you brought to towne wi'yee, / With ſee ſaw ſacke a downe, like a Sawyer; / Nor in a Comicke Scene, play Hercules furens, / Tearing your throat to ſplit the Audients eares.c. 1638, Richard Brome, The Antipodes: […], London: Printed by I[ohn] Okes, for Francis Constable, […], published 1640, →OCLC; republished in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen...
  2. (obsolete, specifically) A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.
    • This aforesaid doctor [John Chrysostom] in divers places of his writings both sharply and grievously reproveth his audients for their slack coming unto the Lord's table, and exhorteth them many times in the year, yea, daily (if they have pure minds) to come unto the holy communion.1560, Thomas Becon [i.e., Thomas Beccon], “The Fifth Part of the Catechism. Of the Sacraments. [Of the Lord’s Supper]”, in John Ayre, editor, The Catechism of Thomas Becon, S.T.P. […] (Parker Society...
    • […] And they were called Catechumeni, who were vnder their inſtruction, and had not yet profited ſo farre, that they might be admitted to receiue the Sacraments. S. Ciprian calleth theſe Audientes, that is, hearers, and the Catechiſt, Doctorem Audientium, that is, the teacher of the hearers.[1591?, Jeremias Bastingius, “[The Preface to the Catechisme]”, in An Exposition or Commentarie vpon the Catechisme of Christian Religion […], Cambridge: Printed by Iohn Legatt. […], →OCLC

audient meaning in Malayalam

audient in Malayalam

ശ്രോതാവ്

Synonyms of audient

Forms of audient

pluralaudients

Origin of audient

Borrowed from Latin audientem, accusative singular of audiēns (“hearing, listening; attending, paying attention to”) (or directly from audiēns), the present active participle of audiō (“to hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from *h₂ew- (“to perceive, see”)) + *dʰh₁-ye/o- (“to render”). The noun may be borrowed from Late Latin audiēns (“catechumen”), from the participle audiēns.

Words formed from audient

Questions about audient

What does audient mean?
Audient means listening, paying attention.
What is audient in Malayalam?
Audient in Malayalam is ശ്രോതാവ്. See Audient meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is audient?
Audient can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce audient?
Audient is pronounced /ˈɔː.dɪ.ənt/ (UK).

Words near audient in the dictionary

  1. audiences
  2. audiencia
  3. audiencias
  4. audiencier
  5. audienciers
  6. audient
  7. audiently
  8. audients
  9. Audierne
  10. audile
  11. audiles

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