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American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1
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Audience
AUD’IENCE, n.
1. The act of hearing, or attending to sounds.
His bold discourse had audience.
2. Admittance to a hearing; public reception to an interview; a ceremony observed in courts, or by official characters, when ambassadors or applicants to men in office are permitted to appear and state their business in person.
3. An auditory; an assembly of hearers.
4. In the Spanish dominions, a court; as the audience of Seville, which is a court of oyer and terminer; and the audience pretorial, in the Indies, which is a high court of judicature. The word in Spain also signifies certain law-officers, appointed to institute a judicial inquiry.
5. In England, a court held by the arch-bishop of Canterbury, on the subject of consecrations, elections, institutions, marriages, c.
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Chicago:
Noah Webster Jr., "Audience," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed July 18, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L46R4ZDV6ZH5I9C.
MLA:
Webster, Noah, Jr. "Audience." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 18 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L46R4ZDV6ZH5I9C.
Harvard:
Webster, N, 'Audience' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L46R4ZDV6ZH5I9C.
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