oyer
pronunciation
How to pronounce oyer in British English:
UK ['əʊjə]
How to pronounce oyer in American English:
US [ 'ɔɪə]
Word Origin
- oyer (n.)
- early 15c., "a hearing of causes," from Anglo-French oyer, Old French oir, from Latin audire "to hear" (see audience). Especially in phrase oyer and terminer (early 15c., but from late 13c. in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-French), literally "a hearing and determining," in England a court of judges of assize, in U.S. a higher criminal court.
Example
- 1. Oyer a hundred people replied to the advertisement .
- 2. The quick brown fox jumps oyer a lazy dog .
- 3. Pondering oyer the ethnic and religions issues in the middle east region after the iraq war .
- 4. In criminal proceedings , preparation procedures performed before judgment is an institution in which adequate measures are primed to facilitate effectiveness in oyer and terminer .
- 5. This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torture their victims had sealed the fates of those tried by the court of oyer and terminer .