auction 
auction (iik'shon), r. t. [< inn-lion, u. \ To 
sell by auction : commonly used with j)'. 
A catalogue deals ttith artieles t) be nm-t,,. 
'I'll, Amtriam, VII. 134. 
auctionary (ak'shon-a-ri), n, [< L. ((//<//<////<- 
riun, < iiiictiii(n-), :m unction. Cf. auctioneer.] 
Pertaining or relating to an unction or public' 
sale. 
\\ Mil <i ui'tiinui nj hammer ill thy hallil. 
iti-f/'tr,,, tr. of JuvenAl'i Sctlm, vii. 
auctioneer (aU-shon-er'), . [<!/< + --r. 
Cf. L. aui-tiiiiiiii-iux, under awtionory.'] One 
whoso business is to offer goods or property 
for sale by auction ; the crier who calls for 
bills ami strikes tin- bargain at an auction; a 
person licensed to dispose of goods or property 
by public sale to the highest bidder. 
auctioneer (ak-shon-er'), c. t. [< aucliniieer, H.] 
To sell by auction. 
I. -I. lies are lamlsea|ies, i;a/,'il upon awhile, 
Then advcrtis'il, nnil auctioneerd away. 
Cwi'lH-r, Task, hi. 7 .Mi. 
auction-pitch (ak'shgu-pitch), . See pitch 1 . 
auction-pool (ak'shon-pol), n. In ln-ttinij, ;i 
pool in which the highest bidder has the first 
choice, the second, third, etc., choices being 
then sold, and the remainder, comprising those 
most unlikely to win, being "bunched" and 
sold as "the field," the winner taking the en- 
tire pool thus formed. 
auctivet (ak'tiv), a. [< L. audits, pp. of <ni- 
gere, increase (see auction), + -tie.] Increas- 
ing; serving to increase. Coles, 1717. 
auctort, An obsolete form of author. 
auctorial (ak-to'ri-al), a. [< L. auctor (see 
author) + -ial. Ct. authorial.] Of or pertaining 
to an author. 
There is more than people think In the gratification of 
the auctorial eye. and the reflection that good writiim 
will lie handsomely placed before the public. 
The Century. 
auctourt, . An obsolete form of author, 
(.'haticer. 
aucuba (a'ku-b&), . [NL.,prob. < Jap. aoki, 
green, -t- ba = lia, a leaf.] 1. A shrub of the 
genus Aucuba. 2. [cap.] A genus of plants, 
natural order Cornaceee, consisting of six spe- 
cies from eastern Asia. They are branching shrubs, 
with smooth opposite leaves and small unisexual flowers. 
I Jajmnica has long been iu cultivation, and is prized for 
its mass of glossy leathery green leaves, mottled with yel- 
low, and its coral-red berries. 
aucupate (a'ku-pat), r. t. ; pret. and pp. aucu- 
pated, ppr. aucupating. [< L. aucupatus, pp. of 
aitcttpari, go bird-catching, < auceps (aucup-), 
a bird-catcher, contr. of "aviccps, C avis, a bird 
(see Aves), + capere, take : see capable.'] Liter- 
ally, to go bird-catching; hence, to lie in wait 
for; hunt after; gain by craft. 
To aucupate benefices by cajoling the Patrons. 
Gentleman* May., CIV. 66. (tf. E. D.) 
aucupationt (a-ku-pa'shon), n. [< L. aucupa- 
tio(n-), < aucupari: see aucupate.'] 1. The art 
or practice of taking birds ; fowling ; bird-catch- 
ing. Blount. 2. Hunting in general. Bullokar. 
and (ad), a. ("Cf. auld.] A dialectal form of 
old. [North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
audacious (a-da'shus), a. [= F. audacieux, < 
aiulace, boldness, < L. audacia, boldness, < ait- 
dax (audac-), bold, < auilere, be bold, dare.] 1. 
Bold or daring; spirited; adventurous ; intrepid. 
She that shall be my wife, must be accomplished with 
courtly and audacious ornaments. 
li. Ji>n.'"n, Epicume, ii. 3. 
Her sparkling eyes with manly vigour shone, 
Big was her voice, attdaciowi was her tone. 
Dnjden, tr. of Ovid's Iphis and lain In-. 
Since the day when Martin Luther posted his audacious 
heresies on the church -door at Wittemberg, a great change 
has come over men's minds. J. Futke, Evolutionist, p. 268. 
2. Unrestrained by law, religion, or propriety ; 
characterized by contempt or defiance of the 
principles of law or morality; presumptuously 
wicked; shameless; insolent: impudent: as, 
an audacious traitor; an audacious calumny; 
" audacious cruelty," Sfiak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 
= Syn. 1. Intrepid, foolhardy, rash. 2. Shameless, un- 
abashed, presumptuous. 
audaciously (a-da'shus-li), adr. In an auda- 
cious manner; with excess of boldness or in- 
solence. 
The strongest, the best, the most audaciously indepen- 
dent of us, will he conscious, as age assaults us, of our 
weakness and helplessness. 
R. T. Coohe, Somebody's Neighbors, p. itm. 
audaciousness (a-da'shus-nes), n. The quality 
of being audacious; boldness; reckless daring; 
impudence; audacity. 
audacity (a-das'i-ti), n. ; pi. audacities (-tiz). 
[< ME. audaeite, <. L. as if *ttudacita(t-)s, bold- 
U77 
Mess, < IIHllll.l- Illlllllli:), bold: See 
1. Boldness; daring; eonlidenee ; intrepidity. 
'Ill-- lierilom anil in/,hi> in, necessary ill the eummei'ee 
of men. 
No Homer sail'.: these Norse sea-killKS; but 
nou's iias a small audacity, and of small fruit in the 
world to some of them to Rolf's of .Normandy for in 
Carlyle. 
2. Keckless daring; venturesomeness. 
A touch of nttihu-itii, altogether short of ellrontery, ulnl 
far less: rtpproai hinv, tn vulyarit} . e,ave as it Mere a wild- 
nr-s to all that she dill. S,;,<t. Tin: Ahlxit, iv. 
3. Audaciousness; presumptuous impudence; 
effrontery: in a bad sense, and often implying 
a contempt of law or moral restraint: as, ''ar- 
rogant audacity," Joijc, Expos, of Daniel, vii. 
4. An audacious person or act. [Bare.] =syn. 2. 
Hardihood. 3. Presumption, coolness. 
Audian (a'di-an), H. A follower of Audius or 
Audteus, a Syrian layman in Mesopotamia, who 
in the fourth century founded a sect holding 
anthropomorphitic views, and was irregularly 
ordained a bishop. 
Audianism (a'di-an-i/m), n. The peculiar 
doctrinal system of Audius and the Audians. 
In addition to strict asceticism, it consisted mainly in a 
literal interpretation of Gen. i. '26, '27, reasoning from the 
constitution of man to the nature of God. 
audibility (a-di-bil'j-ti), . [< audible: see 
-hi/ity.] The quality of being audible. 
The note itself is possibly too feeble for audiliiiii //. 
J. K. U. Gordon, Elect, and Mag., II. 92. 
audible (a'di-bl), a. and H. [< ML. audiliiiii,; 
that may be heard, < L. audire, hear: see au- 
diott.] I. a. Capable of being heard; perceiv- 
able by the ear; loud enough to be heard: as, 
an audible voice or whisper. 
To man's eares not audible. Sir T. Store. 
Even that stubborn church which has held its own 
against so many governments, scarce dared to utter an 
auditAe murmur. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i. 
II. t " That which may be heard. 
V'isibles are swiftlier carried to the sense than audioles. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 273. 
audibleness (a'di-bl-nes), n. Audibility. 
audibly (a'di-bli), adv. In an audible manner; 
so as to be heard. 
audience (a'di-ens), n. [< ME. audience, < OF. 
audience (vernacularly oiance), mod. F. audi- 
ence = Sp. Pg. audiencia = It. audienza, au- 
dienzia, < L. audientia, attention, hearing, < 
audien(t-)s, ppr. of audire, hear: see audient.] 
1. The act or state of hearing or attending to 
words or sounds; the act of listening. 
His look 
Drew audience, and attention still as night. 
Milton, P. L., il. 308. 
2. Liberty or opportunity of being heard; lib- 
erty or opportunity of speaking with or before, 
as before an assembly or a court of law ; spe- 
cifically, admission of an ambassador, envoy, 
or other applicant to a formal interview with a 
sovereign or other high officer of government. 
Were it reason to give men audience, pleading for the 
overthrow of that which their own deed hath ratified? 
Hooker. 
That day Sir Lancelot at the palace craved 
Audience of Guinevere. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
3. A hearing; an interview or conference. 
This conversation was not ended under five audiences, 
each of several hours. Swift, Gulliver's Travels, ii. . 
4. An auditory ; an assembly of hearers. 
Still govern thou my song, 
Urania, and flt audience flnd, though few. 
Milton, P. L, vii. 31. 
5. [Sp. audiencia, commonly used in English 
writing without translation.] In Spain and 
Spanish countries, a name given to certain 
courts, also collectively to certain law-officers 
appointed to institute a judicial inquiry. 
Among those of the former class was the president, 
Deza, with the members of the audience, and the civil 
authorities in Granada. Prescott. 
6. In England, an abbreviation for audience- 
court (which see).=Syn. 4. See spectator. 
audience-chamber (a'di-ens-cham*ber), n. An 
apartment for an audience or a formal meeting. 
audience-court (a'di-ens-kort), n. An ecclesi- 
astical court, now disused, held by the arch- 
bishojjs of Canterbury and York or by auditors 
in their behalf. That held by the Archbishop of Can- 
terbury had equal authority with the Court of Arches, 
though of less dignity, and is now merged in it. 
audiencia (Sp. pron. ou-de-en-the'a), n. [Sp.] 
See audience, 5. 
audiendo et terminando (a-di-en'do et ter-mi- 
nan'do). [ML., for hearing and deciding; dat. 
ger. of L. audire, hear(see audient), and of termi- 
nare, end, decide (see terminate). Cf. oyer and 
audit 
, under oytr.] In lute, a writ or com- 
mission to certain persons for appeasing and 
punishing any insurrection or great riot, 
audient (u'di-ent), . and it. |X L. <tiulini(t-)s, 
ppr. of ititilin- (> It. Miftjr = Sp. uir = Pg. ourir 
= Pr. iiusir = OF. odir, air (AF. nycr ; >E. oiji-r, 
q. v.), mod. F. ouir), hear; ef. Or. <i/m, hear: 
sei- Imir and "<;'.] I. a. Hearing; listening. 
Mrs. Ili-oiriiiii;/. 
II. . 1. A hearer. 
1 h. mtdL "'-v of her sad story felt great motions both of 
pity ami admiration for her misfortune. 
N/i. 'rtn/i, tr. nl Don (Quixote, iv. 2. 
2. In the i iii-lif I'lniri-h: (a) One not yet bap- 
tized, but receiving instruction preparatory to 
baptism ; a catechumen of the first stage, sm-h 
IHTMHIS u. ii. p. i-mitti-d to hear the psalms, lessons, and 
sermon, but were not present at the more sacred services 
which followed, (fc) In the Eastern Church, ac- 
cording to the systematic classification of peni- 
tents in force at the close of the third cen- 
tury, but becoming obsolete early in the fifth, 
one of the second class of public penitents, 
occupying a station higher than that of the 
weepers and lower than that of the prostrates. 
The audients were not allowed to enter the body of the 
church, hut heard the opening prayers and sermon stand- 
ing in the narthcx, which was also the place of the cate- 
chumens, and, like tlirm, had to depart )*foiv the i.ltn- 
tory and anaphora, s, r /.;//<. Also called muliior. 
audile (a'dil), . [Irreg. < L. audire, hear (see 
iiudient), + -ile.~\ One in whose mind auditory 
images are predominant, or especially distinct. 
Strieker, a motile, declares that it is impossible to rep- 
resent to ourselves other vowels while pronouncing any 
particular one, say a: he can only represent them as 
motor images which clash with the motor presentation. 
M. Paulhan, an audile, declares he can easily do what 
Strieker declares impossible, for he can represent the 
auditory images of i and u while the motor presentation 
of a is being presented. JHind, XI. 415. 
audiometer (a-di-om'e-ter), n. [Irreg. < L. au- 
dire, hear, + metrum, < Gr. /I(T/X>V, a measure.] 
An instrument designed to gage the power of 
hearing and record it upon an arbitrary scale. 
audiometric (4"di-o-met'rik), . Of or per- 
taining to audiometry. 
audiometry (a-di-om e-tri), . [As audiometer 
+ -y.] The testing of the sense of hearing, 
especially by means of the audiometer. 
audiphone (a'di-fon), . [Irreg. < L. audire, 
hear, + Gr. <j>uvr/, a sound.] An instrument for 
counteracting deafness by collecting the sound- 
waves and transmitting the vibrations to the 
auditory nerves through the bony part of the 
head. It consists of a diaphragm, or plate, which Is held 
in contact with the upper teeth, and is vibrated by sound- 
waves. 
audit (a'dit), n. [< L. auditus, a hearing, < a- 
dire, pp. auditus, hear: see audient.'] If. Audi- 
ence; hearing. 
With his Orisons I meddle not, for hee appeals to a high 
Audit. Hilton, Eikonoklastes, v. 
Whoso seeks an audit here 
Propitious, pays his tribute, game or flsh. 
Cowper, Task, Iv. 610. 
2. Official examination and verification of ac- 
counts or claims ; an examination into ac- 
counts or dealings with money or property ; es- 
pecially, an examination of accounts by proper 
officers, or persons appointed for that, pur- 
pose, who compare the charges with the vouch- 
ers, examine witnesses, and state the result. 
The rule of insisting on a proper audit of account was a 
corollary from the practice of appropriating the supplies 
to particular purposes. Stiivb*, Const. Hist., $ 094. 
Hence 3. A calling to account; an exami- 
nation into one's actions. 
You must prepare against to-morrow for your last suf- 
fering here, and your great audit hereafter. Scott. 
4. An account or a statement of account ; a bal- 
ance-sheet. 
And, how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven? 
Shot., Hamlet, ill. 3. 
5f. A periodical auditing or settlement of ac- 
counts; hence, receipts; revenues. 
I knew a nobleman in England that had the greatest 
audits of any man in my time : a great grazier, a great 
sheep-master, a great timl>er-man, &c. Bacon, Riches. 
Commissioners Of audit, formerly called auditors of 
the Exchequer, in England, officers appointed to call on 
all public accountants to account for money or stores in- 
trusted to them, and to check the account* of the ord- 
nance, army, and navy, and the land-revenue. The es- 
tablishment consists of a chairman and five commissioners, 
a secretary, and numerous subordinates, 
audit (a'dit), v. [< audit, n.] I. trans. To make 
audit of; examine and verify by reference to 
vouchers, as an account or accounts : as, to 
audit the accounts of a treasurer. 
In 1406 the commons, who objected to making a grant 
until the accounts of the last grant were audited, were 
told by Henry that kings do not render accounts. 
Stuobs. Const. Hist., $604. 
