Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rhetorical declamation, as opposed to argument.
- noun Oral instruction designed for initiated disciples only; esoteric doctrine. See
acroamatic .
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- noun
rhetorical declamation - noun
esoteric teaching that was not to be written down
Etymologies
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From Latin acroāma.
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Examples
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A highly refined modification of the acroama -- a musical performance during supper for the diversion of the guests -- was presently heard hovering round the place, soothingly, and so unobtrusively that the company could not guess, and did not like to ask, whether or not it had been designed by their entertainer.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866
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‘quod acroama aut cujus vocem libentissime audiret’:
Hiero 2007
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20, "Themistoclem illum dixisse aiunt cum ex eo quaereretur, 'quod acroama aut cujus vocem libentissime audiret': 'ejus, a quo sua virtus optime praedicaretur.'"
Hiero 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
hernesheir commented on the word acroama
A rhetorical declamation. Plural acroamata.
November 23, 2010