Auricular

Public confession, as made in the hearing of a number of people (e.g. a congregation) differs from private, or secret, confession which is made to the priest alone and is often called auricular, i.e., spoken into the ear of the confessor. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The depression behind the ear is called the auricular sulcus. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Its advertising purports that when the tiny pad with eight bumps is placed in the outer ear and massaged a few minutes each day, it helps customers lose weight through what ads call "auricular therapy" - an alternative medicine supposedly derived from acupuncture. ❋ Unknown (2012)

If the idea of auricular Confession were then introduced for the first time, and Christians were not used to it, there would have been an uproar of protest throughout the whole Church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"pious opinion;" there were invocation of saints and worship of images, prayers for the dead, and holy water; but dispensations and indulgences were uninvented, the Inquisition was unknown, numbers of the clergy were married men, and that organ of tyranny and sin, termed auricular confession, had not yet been set up to grind the consciences and torment the hearts of those who sought to please God according to the light they enjoyed. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

Less certain is the recorded use of knotted scourges in performing penance, and the existence of a peculiar kind of auricular confession. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

God, but "one to another" -- a practice not favored by English catechumens -- (by the way, what _do_ you all mean by "auricular" confession -- confession that can be heard? and is the Protestant pleasanter form one that can't be?) (9.) ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

A whisper in this place is very often of great use, as it serves to convey the most secret intelligence, which a lady would be ready to burst with, if she could not find vent for it by this kind of auricular confession. ❋ John Hamilton Moore (1772)

His winning word - auricular, meaning quite fittingly understood or recognized by the ear - earned him the prize of a trophy, $5,000 and most importantly, a trip to Ottawa for the national finals March 24-29. ❋ Florence Loyie (2010)

This and other observances, such as auricular confession and monastic institutions, were so mixed up with the worship of a great number of gods, at the head of which was the worship of the sun, and were associated with such horrid human sacrifices and pagan ceremonials, that it is more likely that they acquired the cross, with other pagan traditions handed down to them from a remote antiquity, from the common stock from whence both the inhabitants of the Eastern and Western hemispheres were descended. ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)

In our post-humanist era, the direct descendants of Dutch still life painting — and also this sort of Northern Renaissance genre painting — must be our cloned sheep and GM rice fields and auricular mice and Martian designer plants and transgenic zoos, especially when visually composed for mass consumption via CNN, press releases and blogs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm half Japanese and I have completely attached auricular lobule! ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Try auricular acupuncture to stimulate self-healing, and definately pain reduction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's the 10% with the tubercle, and then some other percentage with a completely attached auricular lobule earlobe. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Across the intertragical notch is the prominence known as the antitragus, part of the stiff cartilaginous shelf from which hangs the fleshy auricular lobule earlobe. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

In our post-humanist era, the direct descendants of Dutch still life painting — and also this sort of Northern Renaissance genre painting — must be our cloned sheep and GM rice fields and auricular mice and Martian designer plants and transgenic zoos, especially when visually composed for mass consumption via CNN, press releases and blogs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He marked the upper and lower lids and made a line around both ears for an auricular incision. ❋ Lynda La Plante (2008)