sb. pl. Obs. [Gr. ἀκούσματα pl. of ἄκουσμα anything heard, n. of action f. ἀκού-ειν to hear.] Things received on authority: a technical word of a school of philosophy.
1655–60. T. Stanley, Hist. Philos., 371/1 (1701). They did esteem those amongst them the wisest, who had most of these Acousmata. Now all these Acousmata were divided into three kinds; some tell, what something is, others tell, what is most such a thing; the third sort tell, what is to be done, and what not.
