A. adj. Pertaining to or received through the auditory nerves. Of a person: of or pertaining to an audile.
1897 19th Cent. Aug. 229 The phenomena..may be dichotomised as (1) audile, (2) visual. The audile subdivide into (1) Footsteps. (2) Voices..(3) Raps..(4) and (5) Noises..(6) A detonating noise. 1909 Daily Chron. 22 Feb. 4/7 Unless you are a microcephalous idiot, you are either Audile, Motile, or Visile. 1919 E. BARKER in H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. xv. 86/2 Homer..is audile, not visual. 1956 H. READ Art of Sculpture iv. 71 Thus there are visual types, tactile types, and audile types.
B. n. A person in whom auditory images are predominant over motile and visual presentations.
1886 Mind July 415 M. Paulhan, an audile, declares..he can represent the auditory images of i and u while the motor presentation of a is being presented. 1917 J. ADAMS Student's Guide 23 Some prefer to learn through the eye, others like to learn through the ear, still others through the sense of touch. The first kind are called visuals, the second audiles, the third tactiles.
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:55 pm (UTC)(about audile)