1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 561. Alexander unto Aristotle greeting. Thou hast not done well to put forth the Acroamaticall Sciences.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn. (1640), 273. The one is an Exotericall or revealed; the other an Acroamaticall or concealed Method.
a. 1656. J. Hales, Gold. Rem., 189 (1688). Divide his Lectures and Readings into Acroamatical and Exoterical.