[ad. L. audītōrius pertaining to hearing or hearers, f. audītor: see AUDITOR and -ORY.]
1. Pertaining to the sense or organs of hearing; received by the ear.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 10. That part of the temple bones, where the auditorie hole is sited.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 253. Three small bones in the Auditory Organ … Incus, Malleus, and Stapes.
1724. Swift, To Delany, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 46. From each ear, as he observes, There creep two auditory nerves.
1813. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XXXV. 139. A habit of attending to auditory ideas.
2. Belonging to the auditorium of a theater, etc.
1740. Cibber, Apol. (1756), I. 231. If the auditory part were a little more reduced to the model of that in Drury Lane.
