Audience - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: audienceAudience Court
Audience Court, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, having the same authority with the Court of Arches, but inferior to it in dignity and antiquity. The Dean of the Arches is the official auditor of the Audience. The Archbishop of York has also his Audience Court, Termes de la Ley...
Audience
Audience, a hearing; an interview....
Pre-audience
Pre-audience, the right of one to be heard before another; as of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General before King's Counsel, of King's Counsel before other barristers, and of barristers generally in the order of their call....
Durbar
An audience hall the court of a native prince a state levee a formal reception of native princes given by the governor general of India...
emphasis
A particular stress of utterance or force of voice given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience...
Exordium
A beginning an introduction especially the introductory part of a discourse or written composition which prepares the audience for the main subject the opening part of an oration...
Harlequin
A buffoon dressed in party colored clothes who plays tricks often without speaking to divert the bystanders or an audience a merry andrew originally a droll rogue of Italian comedy...
Homily
A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience a serious discourse...
hootenanny
An informal social gathering or concert featuring mostly folk songs sometimes dancing and where the audience often participates in the singing...
Orchestra
The space in a theater between the stage and the audience originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians Now commonly called orchestra pit to distinguish it from the section of the main floor occupied by spectators...
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