AUDITORY, or AUDIENCE, an assembly of people who attend to hear a person who speaks in public.

Auditory is also used for the bench whereon a magistrate or judge hears causes.

Auditory, in ancient churches. See AUDITORIUM.

Auditory Passage, (meatus auditorius), in anatomy; the entrance of the ear. See ANATOMY, p. 763, n° 141.

Auditory Nerves. See ANATOMY, p. 760.