单词 | audiency |
释义 | † audiencyn. Obsolete. rare. (a) An assembly for the performance of State business; (b) a right to be heard, precedence of speech or authority.In sense (b) with allusion to Mark 9:7, in which the prophets Moses and Elijah appear to Jesus and a group of disciples: ‘And there was a cloud that ouershadowed them: and a voyce came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him’ (King James Bible). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > occasion of hearing > right to audiency1625 1625 Abp. J. Williams Great Britains Salomon 41 Those Speeches of his in the Parliament, Starre-Chamber, Councell Table, and other publique Audiencies of the State..doe proue him to bee the most powerfull Speaker, that euer swayed the Scepter of this Kingdome. a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) vii. 55 And when GOD said it, MOSES and ELIAS were there in the Mount, and resigned up both their severall audiencies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1625 |
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