a. Obs. [f. prec. + -AL 1; see -ICAL.] = ACROAMATIC.

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1580.  North, Plutarch (1676), 561. Alexander unto Aristotle greeting. Thou hast not done well to put forth the Acroamaticall Sciences.

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1605.  Bacon, Adv. Learn. (1640), 273. The one is an Exotericall or revealed; the other an Acroamaticall or concealed Method.

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a. 1656.  J. Hales, Gold. Rem., 189 (1688). Divide his Lectures and Readings into Acroamatical and Exoterical.

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