auditores

You reply, by an argument ad auditores, that at that temperature — nay, indeed, long before it had been reached, namely, at 212° Fahrenheit — the sea would have been boiled away, and spread through the air in the form of steam.

The Art of Controversy 2004

If you have no argument ad rem, and none either ad hominem, you can make one ad auditores; that is to say, you can start some invalid objection, which, however, only an expert sees to be invalid.

The Art of Controversy 2004

In the sect, there was an esoteric minority called perfecti, who were supposed to obey the strict rules of an ascetic ethic; the rest were auditores, who followed, at a distance, the doctrines of the perfecti but not their rules.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

Is this a conscious use, in a Christian context, of the distinction he had known so well among the Manicheans -- between the perfecti and the auditores?

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

_Sequuntur auditores actoribus similes, conducti et redempti mancipes.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

_Primus hunc audiendi morem induxit Largius Licinius, hactenus tamen ut auditores corrogaret.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Primates Manichaeorum; those who through human frailty felt unable to abstain from all earthly joys, though they accepted Manichæan tenets, were "the Hearers", auditores, or catechumens.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Manichæan Church was divided into five hierarchical classes; St. Augustine names them magistri, episcopi, presbyteri, electi, and auditores; this Christianized terminology represents in Manichæan mystical language the sons of meekness, of reason, of knowledge, of mystery, and of understanding.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

This work, at first entrusted to the papal chaplains, was afterwards divided between the p nitentiarii and the auditores, according as questions of the internal or the external forum (i. e., jurisdiction) were to be considered.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

“We appeal to you, O readers of the sacred books, not to hearken to their contents with weariness and disdain for what seems to be their unpleasing method of narration” (“Deprecamur vos, O auditores sacrorum voluminum, non cum taedio vel fastidio ea quae leguntur, audire pro eo quod minus delectabilis eorum videtur esse narratio”); cp.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908