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‖ acroasis|ˌækrəʊˈeɪsɪs| Pl. acroases. [Gr. ἀκρόᾱσις a hearing, something listened to, f. ἀκροᾶσθαι to hear.] Anc. Hist. An oral discourse; a discourse listened to.
1655–60T. Stanley Hist. Philos. 358/1 (1701) Six hundred Persons..came to his nocturnal Acroasis, perhaps meaning the Lectures through a Skreen during their Probation. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 64 [He] gave his admiring poems the appropriate and suggestive name of acroases—auscultations, things intended to be heard. |