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noun

Audit n.

An audience; a hearing. (Obs.) "He appeals to a high audit."

An examination in general; a judicial examination. Note: Specifically: An examination of an account or of accounts, with the hearing of the parties concerned, by proper officers, or persons appointed for that purpose, who compare the charges with the vouchers, examine witnesses, and state the result.

The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account. "Yet I can make my audit up."

A general receptacle or receiver. (Obs.) "It (a little brook) paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud."

Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit.

Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.

verb

Audit v. t. (past & past part. audited; pres. part. auditing) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.

Audit v. i. To settle or adjust an account. "Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed."

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Etymology of 'Audit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the directors should not be excluded from sitting in either House, and whether they should not be subject to the audit and visitation of a ...

— The Querist • George Berkeley

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— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... on the papers that had accumulated in File A6754, and turned them over to the Audit Department. The Audit Department took some time to look the matter up, and after the usual delay wrote Flannery that as he had on hand one hundred and sixty guinea-pigs, the property of consignee, he should deliver them and collect charges at the ...

— "Pigs is Pigs" • Ellis Parker Butler

... gentlemen. And I can never remember the time when it was not diligently impressed upon me that, if I minded my syntax, I might eventually hope to reach a position which would give me three hundred pounds a year, a stable for my horse, six dozen of audit ale every Christmas, a loaf and two pats of butter every morning, and a good dinner for nothing, with as many almonds and raisins as ...

— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan

... doubtful. But seculars of position or influence appear to have been able to borrow monastic books. For example, in 1320, the prior and convent of Ely acknowledge receiving ten books from the executors of a rector of Balsham, who had borrowed them.[3] Some years later, at an audit of books of Christ Church, Canterbury, seventeen manuscripts— thirteen of them on law—were noted as in the hands of seculars, among ...

— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage

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