audient

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audiēns, audientem.

Adjective

audient (not comparable)

  1. Listening, paying attention.
    • Elizabeth Browning
      Audient souls.
    • H.P. Lovecraft
      Nyarlathotep...the crawling chaos...I am the last... I will tell the audient void...

Noun

audient (plural audients)

  1. (obsolete) A hearer; especially, a catechumen in the early Church.

References

  • audient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

audient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of audiō
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