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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 8, 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. 8 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 8 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L46R4ZDV6ZH5I9C.
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