auricular
[noun]
Synonyms: aural, audible

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auricular adjective & noun. [ɔ:'rɪkjʊlǝ] LME.
[Late Latin auricularis, formed as AURICULA: see -AR¹.]
A. adjective.
1. Of confession: spoken into the ear, private. LME.

2. Audible. L16.
■ Shakespeare King Lear I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction.

3. Addressing, affecting, or employing the ear only (without mental apprehension). L16-M18.
■ C. Cibber Not mere auricular imitators of one another.

4. gen. Of or pertaining to the ear. M17.
auricular finger the little finger (see sense B.1 below). auricular witness: one who relates what he has heard.

5. Of, pertaining to, or resembling an auricle of the heart. M19.
b. noun.
1. The little finger (as most easily inserted into the ear). M17.

2. Any of the feathers in the tuft covering the orifice of a bird's ear. L18.

3. An ear. rare. M19.

■ auricularly adverb L16.

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