单词 | auditor |
释义 | auditorn. 1. A hearer, listener; one of an audience. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > hearer or listener hearera1340 hearkener1340 auditorc1386 intelligent1508 audient1550 listener1611 auditress1667 harker1825 describee1830 sayeea1902 c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 229 Workers of Goddes word, not auditours. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 73 What, a play toward? Ile be an Auditor . View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 58 No parish to containe aboue a thousand Auditors. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 195. ⁋1 He that long delays a story, and suffers his auditor to torment himself with expectation. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. viii. 264 The galleries were..filled with auditors. 2. a. One who learns by oral instruction; an attendant on lectures, a disciple; in Church History a catechumen; cf. audient n. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > pupil > receiving oral instruction auditor1483 hearer1686 lecturee1900 society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > one who undergoes catechumen14.. auditor1483 audient1615 catechumenist1629 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 425/1 He made al the audytours of the cristen feyth to be put to deth. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biiij As the Auditors of the Philosophers did in times past. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 326 Bodley..was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew. 1851 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church (new ed.) 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. North American. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > one who attends a course auditor1933 1933 Bull. Ohio State Univ. Coll. Arts & Sci. 14 Mar. 16 A student in the University may audit a course without additional fee... One not a student in the University may be admitted as an auditor..subsequently paying the fees required in the College in which he desires mainly to audit. 1937 Bull. Univ. Kentucky June 14 Auditors. In lecture and recitation courses..$1.00 per credit hr. 1964 Bull. Univ. Kentucky Gen. Catal. 1964/5 28/2 All auditors are charged the same fee that they would pay for credit. 1987 Washington 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. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > auditor auditor1377 controllera1400 opposera1483 comptrollera1552 auditory1623 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 458 Of my reue to take Al þat myne auditour, or elles my stuwarde Conseilleth me by her acounte. 1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 547 Send downe..to some awdyter to take acomptys of Dawbneys byllys. 1557 Ord. Hospitalls B iv b There shall also be chosen Auditors generall of the Accompts. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 153 Call me before th' exactest Auditors, And set me on the proofe. View more context for this quotation 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xxix. 259 The public ought to have auditors on their part, and the accounts should be annually published. 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 n. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > one who judges or decides departer1382 judgec1390 judgerc1449 terminer1496 arbiterc1503 legislatora1513 determiner1530 pronouncer1561–2 judicant1570 censurer1585 discusser1587 sentencer1589 justicer1609 judicator1613 auditor1640 dijudicant1661 adjudicator1705 adjudger1821 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > archbishop's court > [noun] > presiding officer of officialc1330 auditor1726 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions vi. 42 In matter of Action, and of Iudicature, Affection in some sort is an Auditor or Iudge. 1706 London Gaz. No. 4230/1 Signior Caprara, one of the Auditors de Rota. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 192 The Auditor, or Official of Causes and Matters in the Court of Audience of Canterbury. b. (See quot. 1919.) ΚΠ 1919 A. P. Moore-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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1377 |
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