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auditor|ˈɔːdɪtə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 audytour(e, 4–7 -itour, 5 -ytor, awdyter, 5– auditor.
[a. AF. auditour = F. auditeur (substituted for OF. oeor), ad. L. audītor, f. audīre to hear: see -or.]
1. A hearer, listener; one of an audience.
c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 229 Workers of Goddes word, not auditours. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 81 What, a Play toward? Ile be an auditor. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. 58 No parish to contain above a thousand auditors. 1752Johnson Rambl. 195 ⁋1 He that long delays a story, and suffers his auditor to torment himself with expectation. 1863M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer's Greece I. viii. 264 The galleries were..filled with auditors.
2. a. One who learns by oral instruction; an attendant on lectures, a disciple; in Eccl. Hist. a catechumen; cf. audient n.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 425/1 He made al the audytours of the cristen feyth to be put to deth. 1589Pasquil's Ret. B iiij, As the Auditors of the Philosophers did in times past. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I/326 Bodley..was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew. 1851Torrey Neander's Ch. Hist. I. 502 The great mass, consisting of the exoterics, were to constitute the Auditors.
b. One who audits a course, etc.: see audit v. 5. N. Amer.
1933[see audit v. 5]. 1937Bull. Univ. Kentucky June 14 Auditors. In lecture and recitation courses..$1.00 per credit hr. 1964Bull. Univ. Kentucky Gen. Catal. 1964/5 28/2 All auditors are charged the same fee that they would pay for credit. 1987Washington Post 8 Feb. e3/6 Several of the older passengers earned credits for their efforts, although most had attended as auditors.
3. (From the fact that accounts were formerly vouched for orally) An official whose duty it is to receive and examine accounts of money in the hands of others, who verifies them by reference to vouchers, and has power to disallow improper charges.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 458 Of my reue to take Al þat myne auditour, or elles my stuwarde Conseilleth me by her acounte. 1469J. Paston in Lett. 631 II. 388 Send downe..to some awdyter, to take acomptys of Dawbneys byllys. 1557Ord. Hospitalls B iv b, There shall also be chosen Auditors generall of the Accompts. 1607Shakes. Timon ii. ii. 165 Call me before th' exactest Auditors, And set me on the proofe. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxxi. 313 The public ought to have auditors on their part, and the accounts should be annually published.
fig.1393Gower Conf. II. 191 Upon thilke ende of our accompte, Which Crist him self is auditour. 1533More Apol. i. Wks. 845/2 No such man wil ouer me be so sore an auditour..as to charge me with any great losse.
4. a. One who listens in a judicial capacity and tries cases brought before him for hearing; spec. the official presiding in the archbishop's Audience Court (see audience 3).
1640Bp. Reynolds Passions vi. 42 In matter of Action, and of Iudicature, Affection in some sort is an Auditor or Iudge. 1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4230/1 Signior Caprara, one of the Auditors de Rota. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 192 The Auditor, or Official of Causes and Matters in the Court of Audience of Canterbury.
b. (See quot.)
1919Moore-Anderson Sir Robert Anderson i. 4 Of his University life [at Trinity Coll., Dublin] he..cherished pleasant memories..associated with the College Historical Society, of which he became Auditor, a position corresponding to that of President of the Union at Oxford or Cambridge. |