auricular

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His National Auricular Foundation, set up in 1938 next door to Los Angeles County's Juvenile Hall, has tested the hearing of 40,000 youngsters.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most complicated part of the whole machine,—and the part most difficult to be understood,—is that which is called Auricular Confession.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

Of your figures Auricular that worke by Surplusage.

From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George

Before the Reformation Auricular Confession was compulsorily made to a priest, and Absolution was sought.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

Auricular deception frequently occurs in dreams, and sometimes precedes general delirium in fevers; and sometimes belongs to vertigo, and to reverie, and to insanity.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus