Hearing

Definition of Hearing

Hear´ing
n.1.The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear.
- Job xlii. 5.
2.Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.
3.A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.
His last offenses to us
Shall have judicious hearing.
- Shak.
Another hearing before some other court.
- Dryden.
4.Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot.
They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.
- Tennyson.

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