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1619 Two Wise Men & All Rest Fooles iii. ii. 35 The propertie of this Tobaccho is to yeeld a porringer full of Rheume everie pipefull: and procure ventositie conveniently to descend verie odoriferous, and secure from audibility.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ix. 192 The very make, and fashion of these mountains..might advantage much the articulate audibility of the Levites voices.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 256 The Audibility of Sounds are certain Prognosticks of the temper of the Air.

1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick i. 15 Loudness is very well measured by the Distance or Sphere of Audibility.

1765 J. Rice Introd. Art of Reading ii. 74 The Audibility of Speech doth not depend merely on the Tone of Voice.

1826 W. C. Green Woodland Family xxxiv. 341 Every successive time her lips were opened to utter the accents of indigence and entreaty, they pronounced them with increasing audibility, and additional firmness.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 136 Every man has a right to his own ears. No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room, or to put upon the company with the loud statements of his crotchets or personalities.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 1021 This murmur..may be a short systolic ‘puff’ having a very limited area of audibility.

1937 Hispanic Rev. 5 268 The close relation between audibility or perceptibility and syllabic structure is well illustrated in three-consonant groups.

2001 Wire June 31/1 A barely perceptible electric tic hovering on the horizon of audibility.