Acroamatic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Acroamatic is an adjective meaning Esoteric, abstruse; (in particular) taught orally to select students and not disseminated.
Meaning
Esoteric, abstruse; (in particular) taught orally to select students and not disseminated.
More Meanings
- (education) Based on lectures or exposition by monologue.
- (rare, chiefly archaic) Of or pertaining to hearing.
Example Sentences
Coordinate term: erotematic
Up to that time the “acroamatic” method had been used in which the catechist gave a lecture, and the children were only listeners (ἀκροᾶσθαι).
[Questions’] employment here does not mark a shift from the acroamatic (lecture-based) to the erotematic (interrogatory) method, for the answers are not known.
Prate they not cataracts of insensible noise, / That with obstreperous cadence cracks the organs / Acroamatick, till the deaf auditor / Admires the words he heares not?
Word Forms
- acroamatick
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include esoteric, acroamatical, acoustical, acrophonetic, acoustick, auditive.
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