acroamatic
Definitions & Usage
(rare, chiefly archaic) Of or pertaining to hearing.
Esoteric, abstruse; (in particular) taught orally to select students and not disseminated.
(education) Based on lectures or exposition by monologue.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“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?”
— 1632, Thomas Randolph, The Jealous Lovers, Cambridge, page 59:
“I should prefer, therefore, to call the former acroamatic, or audible (discursive) proofs, because they can be carried out by words only (the object in thought), rather than demonstrations, which, as the very term implies, depend on the intuition of the object.”
— 1922, F. Max Müller, transl., Critique of Pure Reason, translation of Kritik der reinen Vernunft by Immanuel Kant, page 590:
“The idea that the first thought, as an internal event, is always also dialogical, that is, possesses a communicative quality in itself, is connected to its acroamatic origin.”
— 2009, Jürgen Trabant, “Herder and Language”, in Hans Adler, Wulf Köpke, editors, A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder, Camden House, →ISBN, page 129: