AUDITORIUM, AUDITORY, in the ancient churches, was that part of the church where the AUDITORES stood to hear, and be instructed. See CHURCH. The auditorium was that part now call’d NAVE of the church. See NAVE.
In the primitive times, the church was so strict in keeping the people together in that place, that the person who went from thence in sermon-time was order’d by the Council of Carthage to be excommunicated.
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