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The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton.

Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers. Blackstone.

Not given an audience; not received or heard.

as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

er or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.

An audience; a hearing. [Obs.] He appeals to a high audit. Milton.

One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.

The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

An assembly of hearers; an audience.

Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon. "Buffoon stories." Macaulay. To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances. Melmoth.

The private audience chamber of a king.

A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.

h any other nation. Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

pon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. -- Court of Arches, audience, etc. See under Arches, Audience, etc. -- Court of Chancery. See Chancery, n. -- Court of Common pleas. (Law) See Common pleas, under Common. -- Court of Equity. See under Equity, and Chancery. -- Court of Inquiry (Mi…

d by compressing. -- Crush room, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings. Shak.

An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India. [India] [Written also darbar.]