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单词 auditor
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auditorn.

/ˈɔːdɪtə/
Forms: Middle English–1500s audytour(e, Middle English–1600s auditour, Middle English audytor, awdyter, Middle English– auditor.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman auditour = French auditeur (substituted for Old French oeor ), < Latin audītor , < audīre to hear: see -or suffix.
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.
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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.
figurative.1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 191 Upon thilke ende of our accompte, Which Crist him self is auditour.1533 T. More Apol. i, in 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 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.)
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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.
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