audient

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Listening, paying attention.

   “And, as we sate, we felt the old earth spin, / And all the starry turbulence of worlds / Swing round us in their audient circles, till / If that same golden moon were overhead / Or if beneath our feet, we did not know.”

2. isim A hearer; a member of an audience.

   “The audients of her ſad ſtorie, felt great motions both of pitie and admiration for her miſfortunes: […]”

3. isim A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.

   “This aforesaid doctor [John Chrysostom] in divers places of his writings both sharply and grievously reproveth his audients for their slack coming unto the Lord's table, and exhorteth them many times in the year, yea, daily (if they have pure minds) to come unto the holy communion.”