auricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɹɪk.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /ɔˈɹɪk.jəl.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: Late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin auriculāris, from auricula (“the external ear; the ear”) + -āris (“-ar”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to auricle + -ar. Doublet of auricularis.
The finger is so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.
Senses: examples: text: […] our performances are pastimes jocular,
To please the auricular organ and the ocular.
ref: 1780, Kane O'Hara, “Address to the Audience by Punch, on the Opening of the Microcosm”, in Songs in the Comic Opera of Tom Thumb the Great, Dublin: Arthur Grueber, page vi:
synonyms: otic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ear.
examples: text: The auricular nerves were damaged.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: otic
auditory
aural
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ear.
Of or pertaining to the sense of hearing.
examples: text: auricular confession to the priest
synonyms: otic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ear.
Told to the ear; told privately.
examples: text: auricular evidence
text: […] I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction, […]
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: [I]n the practises [astrology, natural magic and alchemy] are full of Errour and vanitie; which the great Professors themselues haue sought to vaile ouer and conceale by enigmaticall writings, and referring themselues to auricular traditions, and such other deuises, to saue the credite of Impostures; […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
text: When she ceased the auricular impressions from their previous endearments seemed to hustle away into the corners of their brains, repeating themselves as echoes from a time of supremely purblind foolishness.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume II, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the fifth (The Woman Pays), page 200:
synonyms: otic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ear.
Recognized by the ear; understood by the sense of hearing.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Pertaining to a style of ornamental decoration, originating in Northern Europe in the first half of the 17th century, that uses softly flowing abstract shapes in relief some of which bear a resemblance to the human ear; commonly used in silverware, picture frames, and architecture.
Derived terms: auricular artery
auricular fibrillation
auricularly
auricular muscle
auricular style
auriculo-
biauricular
cephaloauricular
conoauricular
interauricular
monoauricular
nonauricular
oculoauricular
periauricular
postauricular
preauricular
retroauricular
sinoauricular
subauricular
supraauricular
temporoauricular
transauricular
zygomaticoauricular