[f. L. aur-is ear + -AL 1. (L. would prob. have been aurīlis.)] = AURICULAR.
1. Of or pertaining to the organ of hearing.
1847. Lewes, Hist. Philos. (1853), 251. Acting on the aural nerve.
1878. A. M. Hamilton, Nerv. Dis., 124. Deafness is … the result of the destructive aural disease.
2. Received or perceived by the ear.
1860. Sat. Rev., No. 252. 247/2. Continental cities, where he had seen and suffered from ocular, aural, or nasal nuisances.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, III. xvii. 175. Aural acquaintance with Latin phrases.
