acroamatic

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  1. Abstruse; pertaining to deep learning: opposed to exoteric. Applied particularly to those writings of Aristotle (also termed esoteric) which possessed a strictly scientific content and form, as opposed to his exoteric writings or dialogues, which were of a more popular character. The former were addressed to “hearers,” that is, were intended to be read to his disciples or were notes written down after his lectures; hence the epithet acroamatic. All the works of Aristotle which we possess, except a few fragments of his dialogues, belong to this class. See esoteric. An equivalent form is acroatic. We read no acroamatic lectures. Hales, Golden Remains.
  2. Acroamatic proof or method a scientific and strictly demonstrative proof or method.

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  • This is the 'acroamatic' method of teaching. —  On the Future of our Educational Institutions
  • n. - doctrine denying existence of universe distinct from God. acosmist, acroamatic adj. - esoteric, told only orally. acrocephalic —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The former -- discursive proofs -- ought to be termed acroamatic proofs, rather than demonstrations, as only words are employed in them, while demonstrations proper, as the term itself indicates, always require a reference to the intuition of the object. —  The Critique of Pure Reason
  • "We, who must be permitted to regard this phenomenon merely as an educational institution, will then inform the inquiring foreigner that what is called 'culture' in our universities merely proceeds from the mouth to the ear, and that every kind of training for culture is, as I said before, merely 'acroamatic.' —  On the Future of our Educational Institutions
 

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  1. from Latin acroamaticus, from Greek ἀκροαματικός, designed for hearing only, from ἀκρόαμα (T-), anything heard: see acroama.
 

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