audile
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of audile
First recorded in 1885–90; aud(itory) + -ile
Vocabulary lists containing audile
Example Sentences
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As a sonata is composed of a series of audile sensations called chords, a painting is composed of a series of visual sensations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Earlier pedagogical works spoke of the visual type of mind, or the audile type, or the motor type, as if the possession of one kind of imagery necessarily rendered a person short in other types.
From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert
A visual might see apparitions more easily, and have more difficulty in automatic writing; and an audile might easily hear voices and write with more difficulty, etc....
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
An audile is one in whom the sense of hearing is predominant.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
The reason why more audile phenomena are perceived at night is that the percipient is tolerably still.
From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by Harris, John William
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