in the ancient churches, was the nave, or that part of the church where the auditors stood to hear and be instructed.

AUDEUS, or AUDIUS, a reformer of the fourth century, by birth a Mesopotamian. He suffered much persecution from the Syrian clergy for his fearless censure of their irregular lives; and was eventually banished into Scythia, where, after propagating his sect with good success, he died at an advanced age, about A.D. 370. The Audrians celebrated the feast of Easter on the same day with the Jewish passover, and they were also charged with Anthropomorphism, or attributing to the Deity a human shape. They founded this opinion on Genesis i. 26. Mosheim's Instit. of Eccles. Hist.