auditive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of auditive
1400–50; late Middle English auditif (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin audītīvus, equivalent to Latin audīt ( us ) past participle of audīre to hear + -īvus -ive
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He is not "auditive"; like Loti and the Goncourts, he writes for the eye.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
According to Hensen, certain Crustacea on sloughing spontaneously introduce fine grains of sand as auditive stones into their otolith vesicle.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
In the belief that the entire labyrinth was an auditive organ, Helmholtz, contrary to the results of his own masterly analysis, originally sought to interpret another part of the labyrinth as the organ of noises.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
What we call the auditive organ is in the lower animals simply a sac containing auditive stones.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
In like manner, we may experience auditive sensations, such as blowing, rubbing and hissing sounds, due to muscular contraction or to the passage of blood in vessels close to the auditory organ.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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