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† acousmatic Obs.|ækaʊzˈmætɪk|
[ad. L. acousmatic-us (of which the pl. acousmatici also occurs unchanged), a. Gr. ἀκουσµατικός lit. one willing to hear.]
A professed hearer, a class of scholars under Pythagoras, who listened to his teaching, without inquiring into its inner truths or bases.
1655–60T. Stanley Hist. Philos. 358/1 (1701) There were many Auditors called Acousmaticks, whereof he gained two thousand by one oration. Ibid. 373/1 The Acousmatici they, who heard only the chief heads of learning, without more exact explication. |