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‖ ˌacroˈama
Pl. ˌacroˈamata.
[Gr. ἀκρόᾱµα anything heard, f. ἀκροᾶσθαι to hear.]
1. A rhetorical declamation (as opposed to an argument).
1852Sir W. Hamilton Disc. 153 Facciolati expanded the argument of Pacius..into a special Acroama; but his eloquence was not more effective than the reasoning of his predecessors.
2. Anc. Philos. Oral teaching heard only by initiated disciples; esoteric doctrines, as distinguished from the exoteric, which might be committed to writing, and published to the world.
1580North Plutarch (1676) 561 Alexander did..learn of Aristotle..other more secret, hard, and grave Doctrine, which Aristotles Scholars do properly call Acroamata. |