subauditionn.

1615 E. Evans Verba Dierum 17 Some are of opinion, that some thing ought here to be supplyed; as if by the Day telling another were strictly to be vnderstood, The Day succeeding the other Verum rectius sine subintellectione hic versus accipitur, saith Iansenius in his Annotations. And indeed, there is so much the lesse need of subaudition.

1805 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα (ed. 2) II. iv. 121 Bond Band Bound—however spelled, and with whatever subaudition applied, is still one and the same word.

1839 New Monthly Mag. 56 455 To every such promise there is a subaudition of so many ifs.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lix Taking the business-part for granted, and leaving it as it were for subaudition.

1905 Sat. Rev. 11 Mar. 311 A glorified subaudition of social compact lay also behind the Tudor despotism.

1953 Shakespeare Q. 4 302 If the word could be shown to contain a classical referent, we should be provided with a new example of the subauditions which enrich the sonnet texture.

1991 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 31 249 A subaudition of honest in the Shakespearean plays and elsewhere..imports the peasantlike quality of artlessness.

1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Subaudition, a hearing a little, a perceiving somewhat. [Also in later dictionaries.]