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audient

adj
/ˈɔː.dɪ.ənt/US

Etymology

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.

  1. borrowed from audiēns
  2. derived from *h₂ewis✻
  3. borrowed from audientem

Definitions

  1. Listening, paying attention.

    • 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.
    • Nyarlathotep … the crawling chaos … I am the last … I will tell the audient void …

  2. A hearer

    A hearer; a member of an audience.

    • The audients of her ſad ſtorie, felt great motions both of pitie and admiration for her miſfortunes: […]
    • 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.

  3. A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early…

    A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for audient. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA