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auricular

[aw-rik-yuh-ler] / ɔˈrɪk yə lər /
ADJECTIVE
perceived by hearing
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His National Auricular Foundation, set up in 1938 next door to Los Angeles County's Juvenile Hall, has tested the hearing of 40,000 youngsters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Auricular fibrillation is at times apparently a clinical entity much as is angina pectoris, but it is often a symptom of some other condition.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

I beg here to lay before my readers an extract from a work, recently published in Paris, entitled, "Auricular Confession and Direction."

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

This Historian, perhaps, had so great credit with these Malefactors that they thought the remedy, by Auricular Confession, might serve too in their Concerns.

From Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Krutch, Joseph Wood

Auricular confession was prescribed, as well as the use of the chrism and of holy water in baptism.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles




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